George Strauss

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| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Strauss

| honorific_suffix = PC

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| office1 = Minister of Supply

| term_start1 = 7 October 1947

| term_end1 = 26 October 1951

| primeminister1 = Clement Attlee

| predecessor1 = John Wilmot

| successor1 = Duncan Sandys

| office2 = Member of Parliament
for Vauxhall

| term_start2 = 23 February 1950

| term_end2 = 7 April 1979

| predecessor2 = New constituency

| successor2 = Stuart Holland

| office3 = Member of Parliament
for Lambeth North

| term_start3 = 23 October 1934

| term_end3 = 3 February 1950

| predecessor3 = Frank Briant

| successor3 = Constituency abolished

| term_start4 = 30 May 1929

| term_end4 = 7 October 1931

| predecessor4 = Frank Briant

| successor4 = Frank Briant

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| party = Labour

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{{Marriage|Patricia O'Flynn|1932|1987|end=died}}
{{Marriage|Benita Armstrong|1987}}

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| parents = Arthur Strauss
Minna Cohen

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George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC (18 July 1901 – 5 June 1993) was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979.

Early life

Strauss was the son of the Conservative (and previously a Liberal Unionist) MP Arthur Strauss (1847–1920), who later joined the Labour Party. George Strauss was educated at Rugby School, where the hostile treatment experienced by him and other Jewish boys left him as a vehement supporter of racial equality. He became a metal merchant and a leading member of the London County Council, on which his wife Patricia also served.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-strauss-1490546.html|title=Obituary: Lord Strauss|last=Dalyell|first=Tam|date=9 June 1993|work=The Independent|access-date=2009-04-21}}

Political career

Strauss' first parliamentary contest was in Lambeth North in 1924, when he lost by just 29 votes; however, he gained the seat in 1929. He lost it in Labour's landslide defeat of 1931, but regained it in a 1934 by-election. In 1939 Strauss was expelled from the Labour Party for seven months for supporting the 'Popular Front' movement of Stafford Cripps, whom he had served as Parliamentary Private Secretary.

Strauss was parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Transport 1945–47 and was the Minister of Supply from 1947 to 1951. After boundary changes, he became MP for Vauxhall in 1950, which he represented until 1979. On 9 July 1979 he was created a life peer as Baron Strauss, of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth.{{London Gazette |issue=47901 |date=12 July 1979 |page=8777}}

References

Bibliography

Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
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External links

[http://www.spartacus-educational.com/TUstrauss.htm George Strauss on Schoolnet]
{{Hansard-contribs | mr-george-strauss | George Strauss }}
[https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1856 The Papers of George Strauss] held at Churchill Archives Centre

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| title = Member of Parliament for Lambeth North

| years = 1929–1931

| before = Frank Briant

| after = Frank Briant

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| title = Member of Parliament for Lambeth North

| years = 1934–1950

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| title = Member of Parliament for Vauxhall