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British Labour politician (1907–1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Gordon Walker, not Walker.
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, CH, PC (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years and twice a cabinet minister. He lost his Smethwick parliamentary seat at the 1964 general election in a bitterly-racial campaign conducted in the wake of local factory closures.
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The Lord Gordon-Walker | |
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Secretary of State for Education and Science | |
In office 29 August 1967 – 6 April 1968 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Anthony Crosland |
Succeeded by | Edward Short |
Minister without Portfolio | |
In office 6 April 1966 – 29 August 1967 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Peter Carington |
Succeeded by | George Thomson |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
In office 16 October 1964 – 22 January 1965 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Rab Butler |
Succeeded by | Michael Stewart |
Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
In office 14 February 1963 – 16 October 1964 | |
Leader | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Harold Wilson |
Succeeded by | Rab Butler |
Shadow Home Secretary | |
In office 13 May 1957 – 12 March 1962 | |
Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
Preceded by | Kenneth Younger |
Succeeded by | George Brown |
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
In office 28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951 | |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Philip Noel-Baker |
Succeeded by | The Lord Ismay |
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
In office 7 October 1947 – 28 February 1950 | |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Arthur Bottomley |
Succeeded by | Angus Holden |
Member of Parliament for Leyton | |
In office 31 March 1966 – 8 February 1974 | |
Preceded by | Ronald Buxton |
Succeeded by | Bryan Magee |
Member of Parliament for Smethwick | |
In office 1 October 1945 – 25 September 1964 | |
Preceded by | Alfred Dobbs |
Succeeded by | Peter Griffiths |
Personal details | |
Born | Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker (1907-04-07)7 April 1907 Worthing, Sussex, England |
Died | 2 December 1980(1980-12-02) (aged 73) London, England |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse |
Audrey Muriel Rudolf
(m. 1934) |
Children | 5 |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
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