Richard Crossman
(1907-1974)
British Member of Parliament
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Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974), sometimes known as Dick Crossman, was a British Labour Party politician. A university classics lecturer by profession, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1945 and became a significant figure among the party's advocates of Zionism. He was a Bevanite on the left of the party, and a long-serving member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1952. He was a Cabinet minister in Harold Wilson's governments of 1964–1970, first for Housing, then as Leader of the House of Commons, and then for Social Services.
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15 December 1907 Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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5 April 1974 (aged 66) Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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