William Norton

William Norton ( Irish Liam Ó Neachtain ; * 1900 ; † December 4, 1963 ) was an Irish politician of the Irish Labor Party and Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ).

biography

William Norton was elected on February 18, 1926 in a by-election in the Dáil Éireann , the lower house of the Irish Parliament , and was a member of it until his death. In 1932 he was the successor to Thomas J. O'Connell chairman of the Irish Labor Party . As such, he supported Éamon de Valera's first Fianna Fáil government, which promised a program of social reforms that corresponded to the ideas of the Labor Party. Under his leadership in the 1940s, it appeared that the Labor Party could replace Fine Gael as the strongest opposition party. In the end, she won 17 seats in the 1943 election - the best result to date. However, his tenure as party chairman during this time was also marked by the dispute between union leaders James Larkin and William X. O'Brien , which came to a head in 1944 with O'Brien's exit from the Labor Party and the subsequent formation of the National Labor Party .

After the defeat of the Fianna Fáil government under de Valera in the general election in 1948, the Labor Party formed a coalition government together with the Fine Gael under John A. Costello , in which Norton was Deputy Prime Minister ( Tánaiste ) and Minister for Social Affairs from February 1948 to June 1951 Welfare was.

Between June 1954 and March 1957 he was again Deputy Prime Minister and this time Minister for Industry and Trade in Costello's second cabinet. In 1960 he finally handed over the office of party leader of the Irish Labor Party to Brendan Corish .

In the by-election made necessary by his death, Terence Boylan was on February 19, 1964 in the 17th Dáil Éireann.

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SURNAME	Norton, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish politician, minister
DATE OF BIRTH	1900
DATE OF DEATH	4th December 1963