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		<title>Tom Griffin: /* Cabinet */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Cabinet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 23:51, 1 November 2012&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l9&quot; &gt;Line 9:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 9:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister for Economic Affairs: Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 29 September 1947-28 February 1950&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister for Economic Affairs: Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 29 September 1947-28 February 1950&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Foreign Secretary: [[Ernest Bevin]] 27 July 1945 | [[Herbert Morrison]] 9 March 1951&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Foreign Secretary: [[Ernest Bevin]] 27 July 1945 | [[Herbert Morrison]] 9 March 1951&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;*Home Secretary: [[James Chuter Ede]] 3 August 1945&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*First Lord of the Admiralty: [[A.V. Alexander]] 3 August 1945-4 October 1946&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*First Lord of the Admiralty: [[A.V. Alexander]] 3 August 1945-4 October 1946&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries: [[Tom Williams]] 3 August 1945&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries: [[Tom Williams]] 3 August 1945&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l19&quot; &gt;Line 19:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Education: [[Ellen Wilkinson]] 3 August 1945 | [[George Tomlinson]] 10 February 1947&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Education: [[Ellen Wilkinson]] 3 August 1945 | [[George Tomlinson]] 10 February 1947&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Fuel and Power: Emanuel Shinwell: 3 August 1945-7 October 1947&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Fuel and Power: Emanuel Shinwell: 3 August 1945-7 October 1947&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;*Minister of Health: [[Aneurin Bevan]] 3 August 1945-17 January 1951&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Secretary of State for India and Burman: [[Lord Pethwick-Lawrence]] 3 August 1945 | [[Earl of Listowel]] 17 April 1947&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Secretary of State for India and Burman: [[Lord Pethwick-Lawrence]] 3 August 1945 | [[Earl of Listowel]] 17 April 1947&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Labour and National Service: [[George Isaacs]] 3 August 1945 | [[Aneurin Bevan]] 17 January 1951 | [[Alf Robens]] 24 April 1951&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Labour and National Service: [[George Isaacs]] 3 August 1945 | [[Aneurin Bevan]] 17 January 1951 | [[Alf Robens]] 24 April 1951&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l27&quot; &gt;Line 27:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 29:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Town and Country Planning: [[Hugh Dalton]] 28 February 1950&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Minister of Town and Country Planning: [[Hugh Dalton]] 28 February 1950&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*President of the Board of Trade: Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 27 July 1945 | [[Harold Wilson]] 29 September 1947 | Sir [[Hartley Shawcross]] 24 April 1951&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*President of the Board of Trade: Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 27 July 1945 | [[Harold Wilson]] 29 September 1947 | Sir [[Hartley Shawcross]] 24 April 1951&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Secretary of State for War: [[Jack Lawson]] 3 August 1945-4 October 1946.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;David Butler and Gareth Butler, ''Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, pp.21-23.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Secretary of State for War: [[Jack Lawson]] 3 August 1945-4 October 1946.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;David Butler and Gareth Butler, ''Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, pp.21-23.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Tom Griffin: started a page</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;List of members of the Labour Cabinet which governed from 26 July 1945 to 26 October 1951.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Cabinet==&lt;br /&gt;
*Prime Minister: [[Clement Atlee]] 26 July 1945-26 October 1951.&lt;br /&gt;
*Lord President: [[Herbert Morrison]] 27 July 1945 | [[Viscount Addison]] 9 March 1951&lt;br /&gt;
*Lord Chancellor: [[Lord Jowitt]] 27 July 1945&lt;br /&gt;
*Lord Privy Seal: [[Arthur Greenwood]] 27 July 1945 | [[Lord Inman]] 17 April 1947 | [[Viscount Addison]] 7 October 1947 | [[Ernest Bevin]] 9 March 1951 | [[Richard Stokes]] 26 April 1951&lt;br /&gt;
*Chancellor of the Exchequer: [[Hugh Dalton]] 27 July 1945 | Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 13 November 1947 | [[Hugh Gaitskell]] 19 October 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister for Economic Affairs: Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 29 September 1947-28 February 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Foreign Secretary: [[Ernest Bevin]] 27 July 1945 | [[Herbert Morrison]] 9 March 1951&lt;br /&gt;
*First Lord of the Admiralty: [[A.V. Alexander]] 3 August 1945-4 October 1946&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries: [[Tom Williams]] 3 August 1945&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for Air: [[William Wedgewood Benn]] (Viscount Stansgate) 3 August 1945-4 October 1946&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Civil Aviation: [[Lord Pakenham]] 31 May 1948-28 May 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for the Colonies: [[George Henry Hall]] 3 August 1945 | [[Arthur Creech-Jones]] 4 October 1946 | [[Jim Griffiths]] 28 February 1950.&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations: [[Viscount Addison]] 7 July 1947 | [[Philip Noel-Baker]] 7 October 1947 | [[Patrick Gordon-Walker]] 28 February 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Defence: [[Clement Attlee]] 27 July 1945 | [[A.V. Alexander]] | [[Emanuel Shinwell]] 28 February 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs: [[Viscount Addison]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Education: [[Ellen Wilkinson]] 3 August 1945 | [[George Tomlinson]] 10 February 1947&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Fuel and Power: Emanuel Shinwell: 3 August 1945-7 October 1947&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for India and Burman: [[Lord Pethwick-Lawrence]] 3 August 1945 | [[Earl of Listowel]] 17 April 1947&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Labour and National Service: [[George Isaacs]] 3 August 1945 | [[Aneurin Bevan]] 17 January 1951 | [[Alf Robens]] 24 April 1951&lt;br /&gt;
*Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: [[Hugh Dalton]] 31 May 1948 | [[Viscount Alexander]] 28 February 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Paymaster-General [[Arthur Greenwood]] 9 July 1946-5 March 1947 | [[Viscount Addison]] 2 July 1948-1 April 1949&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister without Portfolio: [[A.V. Alexander]] 4 October 1946-20 December 1946 | [[Arthur Greenwood]] 17 April 1947-29 September 1947&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for Scotland: [[Joseph Westwood]] 3 August 1945 | [[Arthur Woodburn]] 7 October 1947 | [[Hector McNeil]] 28 February 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*Minister of Town and Country Planning: [[Hugh Dalton]] 28 February 1950&lt;br /&gt;
*President of the Board of Trade: Sir [[Stafford Cripps]] 27 July 1945 | [[Harold Wilson]] 29 September 1947 | Sir [[Hartley Shawcross]] 24 April 1951&lt;br /&gt;
*Secretary of State for War: [[Jack Lawson]] 3 August 1945-4 October 1946.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;David Butler and Gareth Butler, ''Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, pp.21-23.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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==Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:UK Cabinet]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Tom Griffin</name></author>
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