James Gregor Mackenzie (15 November 1927 – 4 May 1992) was a British Labour Party politician.

Early life

Mackenzie was educated at the Royal Technical College and the University of Glasgow. He became a sales manager and a councillor on Glasgow Corporation from 1952.

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Political career

Mackenzie contested Aberdeenshire East in 1950 and Kinross and Western Perthshire in 1959. He became Member of Parliament for Glasgow Rutherglen at a 1964 by-election (where he narrowly beat Norman Buchan at the Labour Party selection meeting). He served until his retirement at the 1987 general election. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1966. In the 1970s he served as a minister at the Department of Industry and the Scottish Office.

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References

Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983

Whitaker's Almanack 1993

External links

1927 births

1992 deaths

Scottish Labour MPs

Councillors in Glasgow

UK MPs 1959–1964

UK MPs 1964–1966

UK MPs 1966–1970

UK MPs 1970–1974

UK MPs 1974

UK MPs 1974–1979

UK MPs 1979–1983

UK MPs 1983–1987

Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Scottish Labour councillors

Alumni of the University of Glasgow

Rutherglen

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