Albert Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend

Albert James Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend, of Gravesend in the County of Kent ( born January 9, 1930; † 10 February 1980) was a British Labour Party politician, who some years member of the House of Commons and Member of Parliament was and 1976 as a result of the Life peerages Life peer Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Lower house MP and Junior Minister

In the general election of October 15, 1964 Murray was elected as a Labour candidate in the constituency of Gravesend to the MPs in the House of Commons. In this election he could with 26,074 votes ( 45.41 percent ) against the previous owner of the constituency Conservative Party, Peter Michael Kirk, enforce, which accounted for 25 326 ( 44.11 percent). He remained a member of the House up to at the general election on 18 June 1970, when he with 28 711 votes ( 44.95 percent) against challenger of the Tories, Roger White, lost, got the 29 924 votes ( 46.85 percent), and he had at the general election of 31 March 1966, 30 276 votes ( 49.75 percent) to 25,484 votes ( 41.88 percent) still clearly beaten.

During the tenure of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he was 1965-1969 Parliamentary Private Secretary ( Parliamentary Private Secretary ), first Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) and then from 1968 to 1969 with a Minister of State in the Ministry of Technology. Most recently, he served from 13 October 1969 to the end of Wilson's term of office on 18 June 1970 as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and as such belonged to the closest associates of Transport Minister Frederick Mulley.

Upper House Member and Member of the European Parliament

By Letters Patent of 28 June 1976, raised to the peerage due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as life peer with the title Baron Murray of Gravesend, of Gravesend in the County of Kent and was until his death in the House of Lords as a member of. Its official launch (House of Lords) took place on June 29, 1976 with the assistance of Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota and Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale.

On October 20, 1976 Murray was appointed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a member of the European Parliament and belonged to this first until 28 February 1978 and again from 30 June 1978 to the first European elections in 1979.