Stephen Swingler, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Stephen Swingler

British politician

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1915

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1969

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stephen Thomas Swingler, PC (2 March 1915 – 19 February 1969) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969. Swingler was the son of Rev.
H.
Swingler, and was educated at Stowe and New College, Oxford, where he took a B.A.
in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1936).
Before entering politics he was a lecturer in adult education for the Workers' Educational Association.
He served as a Captain in the Royal Armoured Corps from 1941 to 1945.
Under the name 'Thomas Stevens', he wrote books including 'Outline of Political Thought since the French Revolution' (1939) and 'Army Education' (1941).In the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, he was elected as MP for the previously Conservative-held seat of Stafford.
When the constituency was abolished at the 1950 general election, he contested the new Stafford and Stone seat, but was defeated by Hugh Fraser.
At the 1951 general election he was returned as MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, and held the seat until his death. In Harold Wilson's Labour Government 1964-1970, Swingler was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport from 1964 to 1967.
He was then promoted to Minister of State at the same department until November 1968, when he was moved to the new Department of Health and Social Security to become Minister of State for Social Services, and appointed as a Privy Councillor.
the position he held when he died in office in 1969, aged 53.