Dickson Mabon
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The Right Honourable Dickson Mabon |
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| Minister of State for Energy | |
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In office 5 April 1976 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Lord Balogh |
| Succeeded by | Hamish Gray |
| Minister of State for Scotland | |
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In office 7 January 1967 – 19 June 1970 Serving with Lord Hughes |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | George Willis |
| Succeeded by | Baroness Tweedsmuir |
| Member of Parliament for Greenock and Port Glasgow Greenock (1955–74) |
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In office 26 May 1955 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Hector McNeil |
| Succeeded by | Norman Godman |
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| Born | 1 November 1925 Glasgow |
| Died | 10 April 2008 (aged 82) |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative (Social Democratic Party 1981–91) |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth |
| Children | One son |
| Alma mater | Glasgow |
| Profession | Physician |
Jesse Dickson Mabon PC FRSA (1 November 1925 – 10 April 2008), sometimes known as Dick Mabon, was a Scottish politician, physician and business executive. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs who fought the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until October 1981, when he joined the Social Democratic Party. He left Parliament in 1983, and rejoined the Labour Party in 1991.
Mabon was born in Glasgow, the son of Jesse Dickson Mabon, a butcher, and his wife, Isabel Simpson (née Montgomery). He was educated at Possilpark primary school, Cumbrae primary school and North Kelvinside Academy.
He worked as a Bevin Boy in the coal mining industry in Lanarkshire during the Second World War, before Army service (1944–48).
He studied medicine at Glasgow University after he was demobilised. He was chairman of the Labour Club (1948–50), then chairman of the National Association of Labour Students in 1949–1950, and finally president of Glasgow University Union in 1951–52, and of the Scottish Union of Students, 1954–55.
In 1955, he won The Observer Mace, speaking with A. A. Kennedy and representing Glasgow University. In 1995, the competition was renamed the John Smith Memorial Mace and is now run by the English-Speaking Union.
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