Maurice Morrow
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The Right Honourable The Lord Morrow |
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| Minister for Communities | |
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In office 12 January 2016 – May 2016 |
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| First Minister | Arlene Foster |
| Deputy First Minister | Martin McGuinness |
| Preceded by | Mervyn Storey |
| Succeeded by | Paul Givan |
| Minister for Social Development | |
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In office 2000–2001 |
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| First Minister | David Trimble |
| Deputy First Minister | Seamus Mallon |
| Preceded by | Nigel Dodds |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Dodds |
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Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fermanagh & South Tyrone |
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In office 25 June 1998 – 26 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 September 1948 Ballygawley, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Democratic Unionist Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Religion | Free Presbyterian |
Maurice George Morrow, Baron Morrow (born 27 September 1948) is a Northern Irish unionist politician. He was made a life peer in June 2006. He is also a councillor on Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council representing Dungannon Town.
He was educated at Ballygawley Primary School, Dungannon Secondary and Dungannon Technical College, following which he pursued a career as an estate agent. His political career began in 1973 when he was elected to Fermanagh District Council. He has been an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998. In July 2000 he became Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive, a position held until October 2001, during which time he was credited with implementing policies recognising the needs of the elderly, the farming community and introduced new measures to tackle welfare fraud.
It was announced on 11 April 2006 that Morrow would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created life peers, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords. He was created Baron Morrow, of Clogher Valley in the County of Tyrone, on 7 June 2006 and was formally introduced to the House of Lords on 27 June.
The other new DUP peers are Wallace Browne, the Lord Mayor of Belfast for 2005–6, and Eileen Paisley, a vice-president of the DUP and wife of the Leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley. All are to become "working" life peers. At the same time, it was announced that David Trimble, former MP and former leader of the Ulster Unionists, was also being appointed as a working life peer.
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