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