Herbert Morrison

Herbert Stanley Morrison CH ( born January 3, 1888 in London, † March 6, 1965 in Sidcup ), Baron Morrison of Lambeth, was a British Labour Party politician. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of British socialization policy, particularly in transportation.

Life

Morrison was born the son of a police constable in the London Borough of Lambeth. In his early childhood he lost his eyesight due to an infection in his right eye. During the First World War, he refused military service on grounds of conscience.

From 1920 to 1921 Morrison was for the Labour Party in the London Borough of Hackney Metropolitan Mayor and was elected in 1922 in the London City Council ( LCC). In the general election of 1923 he was elected in the constituency of Hackney South into Parliament, lost his seat but again in the dismissal of the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1924. He returned in 1929 back into parliament and was appointed by MacDonald Transport Minister ( until 1931 ). In the period of the National Government, he was once again at the LCC in 1934 was its chief. In 1935 he was re-elected to parliament and competed unsuccessfully with Clement Attlee to the party chairmanship.

In the newly formed government Churchill Morrison was in May 1940, Minister of Supply, in October ( during the "Blitz" ), he broke from John Anderson as Minister of the Interior ( Home Secretary ). In 1943 he competed against Arthur Greenwood unsuccessfully for the office of Treasurer of the Labour Party. After the war he was involved in the drafting of the Labour manifesto for the general election in 1945 and led the election campaign. After the surprisingly clear success of his party, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and was Leader of the House of Commons.

Following the resignation of Ernest Bevin as Foreign Minister in March 1951, he followed him for a few months until the general election in that office. In 1955 he stood as a candidate at the age of 67 years again for the party presidency, but cut in the election, the Hugh Gaitskell for chose, as the last from. After retiring from the House of Commons in 1959, he was appointed Life Peer. He was also Chairman of the British Board of Film Censors.

Morrison died at age 77 years in London. The Labour politician Peter Mandelson, minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is his grandson.

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