Tom McCabe

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Tom McCabe (2011)

Tom McCabe (born April 28, 1954 in Hamilton , South Lanarkshire , † April 19, 2015 ) was a Scottish politician and member of the Labor Party .

Life

McCabe attended St Martin's Secondary School in Hamilton and then the Bell College of Technology , also located in Hamilton , from which he graduated with a degree in Public Sector Management . He died after a short illness at the age of 60.

Political career

Prior to his election to the Scottish Parliament , McCabe was a councilor of Larkhall and chaired the South Lanarkshire Council. In the 1999 Scottish general election , McCabe stood as a Labor candidate for the constituency of Hamilton South . With a clear lead over the candidate of the SNP , he won the mandate and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the following parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007 he defended his mandate. As part of the 2011 constituency reform, the Hamilton South constituency was dissolved. For this reason, McCabe ran for the 2011 general election for the newly created constituency of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse , in which large parts of the former constituency are absorbed. McCabe was defeated by Christina McKelvie of the SNP and has not been a member of parliament since 2011.

Between May 1999 and November 2001 McCabe was Minister for Parliament and parliamentary executive director of his party. In May 2003 he was appointed Minister of Health and in October 2004 moved to the position of Minister of Finance, which he held until the end of the 2007 legislative period.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Former Labor MSP Tom McCabe dies at home following short illness
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website.
  4. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website.
  5. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website.
  6. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website.

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personal data
SURNAME McCabe, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2015