George Samuel Lindgren, Baron Lindgren, JP, DL (11 November 1900 – 8 September 1971) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in

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, at the 1935 general election he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe

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seat of

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, coming a distant second with 36.7% of the votes. At the 1945 general election, Lindgren was elected to the

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as Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of

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, ousting the sitting Conservative MP

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on a swing of 7.7% vote. He was immediately appointed to the new Labour government as a junior minister, serving as

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from 1945 to 1946, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation from 1946 to 1950, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning from 1950 to 1951. He appears in a film held by the Cinema Museum in London opening council housing in Sutton in Ashfield in 1952. Lindgren held the seat until the 1959 general election, when he lost his seat by 606 votes to the Conservative Michael Hamilton. He returned to his former occupation as a railway clerk, working in the Eastern Region Chief Civil Engineer's Office at

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. He was made a

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on 9 February 1961 as Baron Lindgren, of

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in the

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. He took his seat in the

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, and in

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's Labour government he served from 1964 to 1966 as

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and from January to April 1966 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power. Lord Lindgren died in 1971 aged 70.

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George Lindgren at ThePeerage.com

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* 1900 births 1971 deaths Lindgren, George Lindgren, Baron Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 Transport Salaried Staffs' Association-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs who were granted peerages Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub