Joseph Slater, Baron Slater

Joseph "Joe" Slater, Baron Slater, of Ferryhill in the County of Durham ( * June 13, 1904, † 21 April 1977) was a British Labour Party politician, who for twenty years a Member of the House of Commons was in 1970 due to was the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer member of the House of Lords.

Life

Slater worked after school as a miner of coal mine Main Forth in Ferryhill, which was acquired after the effective date of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 by the National Coal Board ( National Coal Board ). For his services he was awarded on 9 June 1949 with the British Empire Medal. He was first elected as a Labour candidate in the general election on 23 February 1950 Sedgefield constituency as an MP in the House of Commons and was this more than twenty years up to the general election on 18 June 1970. In his first election and subsequent re- election he was able to clearly prevail with around 60 per percent of the vote against his rival candidates.

After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of October 15, 1964 Slater ( Assistant Postmaster General ) was appointed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson as Vice - Postmaster General. In this role, which he held as the last Assistant Postmaster General until the abolition of the function by the Post Office Act 1969 on September 30, 1969 he was deputy and closest collaborator of four General postmasters, namely Tony Benn, Edward Short, Roy Mason and John Stonehouse. He then took over from October 1969 to June 1970 the function of a Parliamentary Secretary ( Parliamentary Secretary ) in the newly created also by the Post Office Act Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications).

After retiring from the House of Slater was a Letters Patent dated 8 July 1970 as a Life peer with the title Baron Slater, of Ferryhill in the County of Durham Member of the House of Lords and was this until his death.