Arthur Champion, Baron Champion

Arthur John Champion, Baron Champion, of Pontypridd in the County of Glamorgan PC JP ( born July 26, 1897 in Glastonbury, Somerset, † March 2, 1985 in Pontypridd, Wales ) was a British Labour Party politician, the Member of Parliament for fourteen years the House of Commons in 1962 as a Life peer and was due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

After schooling contributed champion during the First World War, his military service and then began employment as an employee of the railroad.

In the lower house elections on July 5, 1945 Champion was first elected as a Labour candidate for the Members in the House of Commons by the constituency Derbyshire Southern reigning constituency owner of the Conservative Party, Paul Emrys -Evans, with a majority of nearly 23,000 votes suggested. After a constituency reform, he was elected deputy again in the general election on 23 February 1950 constituency Derbyshire South East and represented that constituency until he in the general election on 8 October 1959, only twelve votes difference against John Jackson, the candidate of the Conservative Party lost.

After Champion 1949-1951 was Parliamentary Private Secretary, he served from April to October 1951 in the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries ), Tom Williams.

By Letters Patent of 11 May 1962 champion who was also temporarily Magistrate ( Justice of the Peace ), as a life peer charged with the title Baron Champion, of Pontypridd in the County of Glamorgan to the peerage, and thus belonged to his death at the House of Lords as a member.

After the election of the Labour Party in the general election on October 15, 1964 Baron Champion of Prime Minister Harold Wilson was appointed minister without portfolio and has held this position until 1967. 1967 he was also appointed a Privy Councillor.