Allan Chapman (politician)

Allan Chapman (1897 – 7 January 1966) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Rutherglen constituency in Lanarkshire. He held the seat during the war years, but at the 1945 general election he was defeated by the Labour Party candidate Gilbert McAllister.

In the war-time coalition government, he was Assistant Postmaster-General from March 1941 to March 1942, and then Under-Secretary of State for Scotland until the coalition government was dissolved in May 1945. In the subsequent caretaker government he then shared the post with Thomas Dunlop Galbraith until the new Labour Government took office at the end of July.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Herbert James Moss
Member of Parliament for Rutherglen
19351945
Succeeded by
Gilbert McAllister
Political offices
Preceded by
Charles Waterhouse
Assistant Postmaster-General
1941–1942
Succeeded by
Robert Grimston
Preceded by
Joseph Westwood
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
from May 1945, jointly with Thomas Dunlop Galbraith

1942–July 1945
Succeeded by
George Buchanan
and Tom Fraser