Arthur Champion, Baron Champion

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Arthur Joseph Champion, Baron Champion PC (26 July 1897 – 2 March 1985), known as Joe Champion, was a British Labour Party politician.

The Lord Champion
Champion in 1959
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
In office
21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
LeaderThe Earl of Longford
Preceded byThe Viscount Blakenham
Succeeded byThe Lord Shackleton
Minister without Portfolio
In office
21 October 1964 – 7 January 1967
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byEric Fletcher
Succeeded byDouglas Houghton
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
In office
26 April 1951 – 26 October 1951
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
11 May 1962 – 2 March 1985
Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for
South East Derbyshire (1950-1959)
South Derbyshire (1945-1950)
In office
5 July 1945 – 18 September 1959
Preceded byPaul Emrys-Evans
Succeeded byJohn Jackson
Personal details
Born26 July 1897
Glastonbury, England
Died2 March 1985(1985-03-02) (aged 87)
Pontypridd, Wales
Political partyLabour

He was born in Glastonbury as the youngest of six children and went on to work on the railways after serving in the First World War. He married Mary Emma (née Williams) in October 1930 and the couple had one daughter, born in December 1931.

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Paul Emrys-Evans to win a majority of nearly 23,000 votes. After boundary changes for the 1950 general election, he was re-elected for the new South East Derbyshire constituency, and held that seat until his defeat at the 1959 general election by only 12 votes.

He was made a life peer on 11 May 1962, as Baron Champion, of Pontypridd in the County of Glamorgan.[1] In January 1967 he was appointed as a Privy Counsellor.

In the last year of Clement Attlee's Labour Government, he served from April to October 1951 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. After taking his seat in the House of Lords, he was a Minister without Portfolio from 1964 to 1967 in Harold Wilson's government. He died in Pontypridd aged 87.

References

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  1. ^ "No. 42670". The London Gazette. 11 May 1962. p. 3765.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire
19451950
Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for South East Derbyshire
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Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
1951
Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
1964–1967
Succeeded by