George Strauss

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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.

Strauss was the son of the Conservative 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 also served.^[1]

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 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. Soon afterwards he was created a life peer as Baron Strauss, of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth.

References

↑ Dalyell, Tam (9 June 1993). "Obituary: Lord Strauss". The Independent. Retrieved 2009-04-21.

Bibliography

Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

George Strauss on Schoolnet
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Strauss

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Frank Briant	Member of Parliament for Lambeth North 1929 – 1931	Succeeded by Frank Briant
Preceded by Frank Briant	Member of Parliament for Lambeth North 1934 – 1950	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Vauxhall 1950 – 1979	Succeeded by Stuart Holland
Preceded by Sir Robin Turton	Father of the House 1974–1979	Succeeded by John Parker
Political offices
Preceded by John Wilmot	Minister of Supply 1947–1951	Succeeded by Duncan Sandys

v t e Fathers of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom

Fagg Turgis Musgrave Strangeways Onslow Erle Vaughan Vaughan Powlett Isham Turner Bradshaigh Ashe Cartwright Shuttleworth Gybbon Rushout Aislabie FitzRoy-Scudamore Nugent Frederick Ellis Drake Stephens Tudway Aubrey Smith Byng Williams-Wynn Harcourt Burrell Lowther Williams Lowry-Corry Weld-Forester Talbot Villiers Mowbray Beach Hicks Beach Finch Campbell-Bannerman Kennaway Burt O'Connor Lloyd George Turnour O'Neill Grenfell Churchill Butler Turton Strauss Parker Callaghan Braine Heath Dalyell Williams Tapsell

Persondata
Name	Strauss, George
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	18 July 1901
Place of birth
Date of death	5 June 1993
Place of death

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