page_title: George Buchanan (politician)
hierarchical_section_title: George Buchanan (politician)
caption_attribution_description: English: George Buchanan, member of Glasgow City Council and the executive of the United Patternmakers' Association. Future MP.
context_page_description: George Buchanan was a Scottish patternmaker, trade union activist and Member of Parliament.
  Buchanan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party.
  Buchanan was Vice-Chairman of Glasgow Trades Council and sat on the City Council from 1919 to 1923. At the 1922 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Gorbals.
  In 1932, Buchanan became Chairman of the United Patternmakers Association of Great Britain, which he held for 16 years. He initially agreed with James Maxton's moving the ILP out of the mainstream Labour Party but decided to leave it to rejoin Labour in 1939.
  At the 1945 general election, Buchanan retained the seat of Glasgow Gorbals and attained the largest increase in percentage of voters in recorded UK history. After the election, the new prime minister, Clement Attlee, appointed Buchanan as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. Buchanan also later served as Minister of Pensions.
context_section_description: George Buchanan (30 November 1890 – 28 June 1955) was a Scottish patternmaker, trade union activist and Member of Parliament.
  Buchanan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP).
  Buchanan was Vice-Chairman of Glasgow Trades Council and sat on the City Council from 1919 to 1923. At the 1922 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Gorbals.
  In 1932, Buchanan became Chairman of the United Patternmakers Association of Great Britain, which he held for 16 years. He initially agreed with James Maxton's moving the ILP out of the mainstream Labour Party but decided to leave it to rejoin Labour in 1939.
  At the 1945 general election, Buchanan retained the seat of Glasgow Gorbals and attained the largest increase in percentage of voters in recorded UK history. After the election, the new prime minister, Clement Attlee, appointed Buchanan as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. Buchanan also later served as Minister of Pensions.
  Buchanan resigned from Parliament in 1948 to take up the position of Chairman of the National Assistance Board and was succeeded by Alice Cullen, who had already succeeded him as the candidate for Glasgow Gorbals.
  He died in 1955, at 64.
caption: Buchanan in 1921
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