Allan Chapman (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAllan Chapman (politician)
Scottish politician
Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1897
Date of Death: 07-Jan-1966
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Allan Chapman (politician)
- Allan Chapman (18 March 1897 – 7 January 1966) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.Chapman was the son of H.
- Williams Chapman and attended Queens' College, Cambridge.
- He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Rutherglen constituency in Lanarkshire.
- He held the seat during the war years, but at the 1945 general election he was defeated by the Labour Party candidate Gilbert McAllister.In the war-time coalition government, he was Assistant Postmaster-General from March 1941 to March 1942, and then Under-Secretary of State for Scotland until the coalition government was dissolved in May 1945.
- In the subsequent caretaker government he then shared the post with Thomas Dunlop Galbraith until the new Labour Government took office at the end of July.He was married to Beatrice Cox.
- He died at Dundee Royal Infirmary, age 68.
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