Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson
- Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson
Thomas "Tom" Williamson, Baron Williamson CBE (2 September 1897 – 27 February 1983) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was General Secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers from 1946 to 1961, and President of the Trades Union Congress from 1957 to 1958.
At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Brigg constituency in Lincolnshire. He resigned his seat in 1948, and at the resulting by-election on 24th March was won by Labour's Lance Mallalieu.
Williamson was made a life peer on 15 May 1962, as Baron Williamson, of Eccleston in the Borough of St. Helens in the County Palatine of Lancaster. He died in 1983, aged 85.
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* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p19198.htm ThePeerage.com: Thomas Williamson, Baron Williamson]
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