Rhodri Morgan

Hywel Rhodri Morgan ( born September 29, 1939 in Cardiff, Wales ) is a British Labour Party politician. He was from 2000 to 2009, both First Minister of Wales as well as state chairman of the Welsh Labour Party.

The son of Professor TJ Morgan received his education at Whitchurch Grammar School, at St John 's College (Oxford) and at Harvard University. He was elected for the Labour Party in 1987 in the British House of Commons. To the First Minister, he was appointed on 16 October 2000. On 1 May 2003 Labour was Morgan's leadership winner of the elections to the Welsh Assembly Parliament. In the elections on 4 May 2007, Labour was able to assert itself as the strongest party, but lost seats and the majority in parliament. Morgan therefore led from 2007 a ​​coalition government with the left - regionalist party Plaid Cymru with its president Ieuan Wyn Jones as the Deputy First Minister ( Deputy First Minister ).

Two days after his 70th birthday in September 2009, Morgan announced that he would retire as of December of the year of his positions in the government and party. To his successor in the party chairmanship competed three country MPs: Huw Lewis, the Welsh Health and Social Affairs Edwina Hart and the Welsh Counsel General Carwyn Jones. The latter sat down on 1 December 2009 in a party vote by and was subsequently elected on 9 December, the new First Minister.