Dickson Mabon

Jesse Dickson Mabon PC FRSA ( born 1 November 1925 in Glasgow, † April 11, 2008 in Eastbourne ) was a British politician.

Life

Mabon, the son of Jesse Dickson Mabon and Isabel Montgomery, attended schools in Possilpark, Cumbrae and North Kelvinside. He then worked as one of the so-called Bevin Boys as a miner in a coal mine. The program, named after an idea by Ernest Bevin, a certain part of the conscripts had to partially complete this form in his military service. From 1944 to 1948 served Mabon in the army, then he took up medical studies at the University of Glasgow. During his studies he was active in the student organization of the Labour Party and was elected in 1949 for the first chairman of the Scottish national student association of the Labour Party. He graduated with honors and was initially responsible for the Health and Social Medicine Institute of the University.

His first efforts for a political mandate he undertook in the elections in 1951, where he competed in the safe for the Conservative constituency of North Ayrshire and Bute. In the next elections, he tried again in vain in a stronghold of the conservatives, this time in West Renfrewshire. Then Mabon, who wrote the meantime also a columnist for the Scottish Daily Record, to a by-election in the constituency went to Greenock, which he won in 1955 and the next Tony Benn made ​​him one of the youngest MPs in the UK Parliament. The Greenock constituency he represented as an MP in the House of Commons to 1974, 1974 to 1983 then the resulting from a reorganization constituency Greenock and Port Glasgow.

In 1964 he was in the government Harold Wilson's first Undersecretary of State for Scotland, 1967, in his cabinet Scotland Minister (State Secretary for Scotland ). While the government of Prime Minister James Callaghan, he took over in 1976 the responsible also for oil production Department of Energy. In this position he was pressing hard for the expansion of oil exploration in Scotland one, which earned him the nickname Mr. Oil. The run by the Scottish National Party campaign to use the oil only for Scotland ( "It 's Scotland 's Oil " ), he opposed it. He was until 1981 a member of the Labour Party before he became a founding member of the Social Democratic Party, which until 1983 he held his seat from 1981. In the 1983 election, he also failed because the Liberal Party its own candidate aufstellte despite an agreement in his constituency. From 1977 he was a member of the Privy Council. In subsequent elections, he failed twice in the constituency Renfrew West, and in the 1984 European elections in the constituency Lothians, also in an agreement with the Liberal Democrats, there was no more promising for him constituency, so he moved in 1990 back to the Labour Party.

Mabon was married, and his wife had a son and two granddaughters. He was in London awarded the Freeman with the Freedom of the City.

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