David Gibson (UK politician)

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

1. ^ "I.L.P. Candidate", Manchester Guardian, 15 October 1935
2. ^ "I.L.P. to fight Renfrew", Manchester Guardian, 23 March 1940
3. ^ LSE Library Archives Catalogue: Independent Labour Party
4. ^ "'Atlantic Pact will lead to war' - I.L.P. Chairman", Manchester Guardian, 17 April 1949
5. ^ 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
6. ^ "CND March in Glasgow", The Guardian, 16 October 1961

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Preceded by Robert Edwards	Chair of the Independent Labour Party 1948–1951	Succeeded by Fred Barton

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