Anthony Greenwood, 1st Baron Greenwood

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Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood, 1st Baron Greenwood , known as Anthony Greenwood, (14 September 1911 – 12 April 1982) was a prominent British Labour Party politician in the 1950s and 1960s.

Son of Arthur Greenwood (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee), Greenwood became an MP in 1946 and served on the party's National Executive Committee from 1954 to 1960. He was the left wing challenger to Hugh Gaitskell in the 1961 leadership election when he received the support of just over a quarter of the Labour MPs. He served successively from 1964 to 1969 as Secretary of State for the Colonies, Minister of Overseas Development and Minister for Housing and Local Government in Harold Wilson's governments.

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Political Papers of Arthur Greenwood (1880-1954) and Anthony Greenwood - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford website dated 5 October 1998.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Edmondson Whittaker	Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe 1946–1950	Succeeded by (constituency abolished: see Heywood and Royton
Preceded by George Henry Walker	Member of Parliament for Rossendale 1950–1970	Succeeded by Ronald Bray
Political offices
Preceded by Dai Davies	Chair of the Labour Party National Executive Committee 1963–1964	Succeeded by Ray Gunter
Preceded by Duncan Sandys	Secretary of State for the Colonies 1964–1965	Succeeded by Lord Longford
Preceded by Barbara Castle	Minister of Overseas Development 1965–1966	Succeeded by Arthur Bottomley
Preceded by Richard Crossman	Minister of Housing and Local Government 1966–1969	Succeeded by replaced by Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning