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David Gibson was a Scottish socialist politician.
Gibson joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and at the 1935 UK general election was its candidate in Stirling East and Clackmannan.[1] He was elected to Glasgow City Council,[2] and he stood unsuccessfully in the Liverpool Edge Hill by-election, 1947.
In 1948, Gibson succeeded Robert Edwards as chairman of the ILP.[3] As chairman, he focussed on opposing war, and feared that the North Atlantic Treaty would lead to a Third World War.[4]
Gibson was succeeded as chairman by Fred Barton in 1951, and focussed on his role as chair of the Glasgow Corporation's Housing sub-Committee on Sites and Buildings, working to build council housing in the city as rapidly as possible.[5] By 1961, he was the baillie - most senior magistrate - of Glasgow and was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.[6]
References
- ^ "I.L.P. Candidate", Manchester Guardian, 15 October 1935
- ^ "I.L.P. to fight Renfrew", Manchester Guardian, 23 March 1940
- ^ LSE Library Archives Catalogue: Independent Labour Party
- ^ "'Atlantic Pact will lead to war' - I.L.P. Chairman", Manchester Guardian, 17 April 1949
- ^ Jane M Jacobs, Stephen Cairns & Ignaz Strebel, "'A tall storey... but, a fact just the same': The Red Road highrise as a black box", Institute of Geography Online Paper Series: GEO-023
- ^ "CND March in Glasgow", The Guardian, 16 October 1961
Political offices Preceded by
Robert EdwardsChair of the Independent Labour Party
1948–1951Succeeded by
Fred BartonSecretaries 1893: Shaw Maxwell · 1894: Tom Mann · 1896: John Penny · 1903: Francis Johnson · 1924: John Taylor · 1927: John Paton · 1933: Fenner Brockway · 1939: John McNair · 1955: Wilfred Wigham
Treasurers 1893: John Lister · 1896: France Littlewood · 1902: T. D. Benson · 1920: Philip Snowden · 1923: George Benson · 1924: Charles Roden Buxton · 1927: Fred Jowett · 1944: Percy Williams · Anne Gill
Categories:- Independent Labour Party politicians
- Politics of Glasgow
- Scottish socialists
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