James Chuter-Ede

James Chuter - Ede, Baron Chuter - Ede of Epsom OH PC ( * September 11, 1882, † November 11, 1965 in Ewell, Surrey, England ) was a British Labour Party politician.

Biography

After visiting the National School Epsom, Dorking High School and Battersea PT Centre in London he studied at Christ 's College, University of Cambridge. During World War II he served his military service in the British Army with the Royal Engineers.

His political career began as the candidate of the Labour Party when he at the general election in 1923 as a deputy in the lower house (House of Commons ) is selected and then the constituency of Mitcham took to the 1924 election. He also became involved in local politics and was not only a member of the City Council of Epsom, but also the Council of the County of Surrey.

In the general election on 30 May 1929 he was again elected to the House of Representatives and represented there until 1931, the constituency in South Shields. In this constituency, he was finally in 1935 re-elected MPs and this was on until 1964. In the meantime, he was from 1940 to 1945 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education (Ministry of Education) as well as 1947, Mayor of Epsom.

After the landslide victory of the Labour Party at the general election on July 5, 1945, he was appointed Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the Interior ( Home Secretary ) in his cabinet and held that post until October 26, 1951. In 1951, he also acted as Leader of the Labour majority party in the lower house and thus Leader of the House of Commons.

After retiring from the House, he was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Chuter - Ede of Epsom to the peerage on 26 January 1964 and was so until his death in the House of Lords (House of Lords).