James Gregor Mackenzie (15 November 1927 – 4 May 1992) was a British
Labour Party politician.
Early life
Mackenzie was educated at the
Royal Technical College
The Royal College of Science and Technology was a higher education college that existed in Glasgow, Scotland between 1887 and 1964, and is the predecessor institution of the University of Strathclyde. Its main building on George Street now serve ...
and the
University of Glasgow
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. He became a sales manager and a councillor on
Glasgow Corporation
The politics of Glasgow, Scotland's largest city by population, are expressed in the deliberations and decisions of Glasgow City Council, in elections to the council, the Scottish Parliament and the UK Parliament.
Local government
As one of ...
from 1952.
Political career
Mackenzie contested
Aberdeenshire East in 1950 and
Kinross and Western Perthshire in 1959.
He became
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
for
Glasgow Rutherglen at a 1964 by-election (where he narrowly beat
Norman Buchan
Norman Findlay Buchan (27 October 1922 – 23 October 1990) was a Labour Party politician, who was on the left-wing of the party, and represented the West Renfrewshire seat from 1964 until 1983 and the Paisley South seat from 1983 until his de ...
at the Labour Party selection meeting). He served until his retirement at the
1987 general election. He was
Parliamentary Private Secretary
A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom who acts as an unpaid assistant to a minister or shadow minister. They are selected from backbench MPs as the 'eyes and ears' of the minister in the H ...
to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the Chancellor is ...
from 1966. In the 1970s he served as a minister at the
Department of Industry and the
Scottish Office
The Scottish Office was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1999, exercising a wide range of government functions in relation to Scotland under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland. Following the e ...
.
References
*''Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983''
*''Whitaker's Almanack 1993''
External links
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1927 births
1992 deaths
Scottish Labour MPs
Councillors in Glasgow
UK MPs 1959–1964
UK MPs 1964–1966
UK MPs 1966–1970
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Scottish Labour councillors
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Rutherglen
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