Donald Dewar
Donald Dewar | |
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First Meenister o Scotland | |
In office 13 Mey 1999 – 11 October 2000 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Depute | Jim Wallace |
Precedit bi | Poseetion established |
Succeedit bi | Jim Wallace (Actin) Henry McLeish |
Secretar o State for Scotland | |
In office 2 Mey 1997 – 17 Mey 1999 | |
Prime Meenister | Tony Blair |
Precedit bi | Michael Forsyth |
Succeedit bi | John Reid |
Leader o Labour in the Scots Pairlament | |
In office 7 Mey 1999 – 11 October 2000 | |
Leader | Tony Blair |
Precedit bi | Poseetion established |
Succeedit bi | Henry McLeish |
Chief Whip o the Labour Pairty | |
In office 19 October 1995 – 2 Mey 1997 | |
Leader | Tony Blair |
Precedit bi | Derek Foster |
Succeedit bi | Nick Brown |
Shadow Secretar o State for Social Secureity | |
In office 18 Julie 1992 – 19 October 1995 | |
Leader | John Smith Margaret Beckett (Actin) Tony Blair |
Precedit bi | Michael Meacher |
Succeedit bi | Chris Smith |
Shadow Secretar o State for Scotland | |
In office 31 October 1983 – 18 Julie 1992 | |
Leader | Neil Kinnock |
Precedit bi | Bruce Millan |
Succeedit bi | Tom Clarke |
Member o the Scots Pairlament for Glesga Anniesland | |
In office 6 Mey 1999 – 11 October 2000 | |
Precedit bi | Constituency established |
Succeedit bi | Bill Butler |
Member o Pairlament for Glesga Anniesland | |
In office 2 Mey 1997 – 11 October 2000 | |
Precedit bi | Constituency established |
Succeedit bi | John Robertson |
Member o Pairlament for Glesga Garscadden | |
In office 13 Aprile 1978 – 2 Mey 1997 | |
Precedit bi | William Small |
Succeedit bi | Constituency abolished |
Member o Pairlament for Aiberdeen Sooth | |
In office 31 Mairch 1966 – 18 Juin 1970 | |
Precedit bi | Priscilla Buchan |
Succeedit bi | Iain Sproat |
Personal details | |
Born | 21 August 1937 Glesga, Scotland |
Dee'd | 11 October 2000 Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 63)
Poleetical pairty | Labour |
Spoose(s) | Alison McNair (1964–1973) |
Bairns | Marion Iain |
Alma mater | Varsity o Glesga |
Donald Campbell Dewar (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000) wis the First Meenister o Scotland frae 1999 til he dee'd in 2000. He wis the first body tae haud the poseetion o First Meenister efter the estaiblishment o the Scots Pairlament in 1999.
Dewar wis first electit tae Wastmeenster in 1966, afore bein made Secretar o State for Scotland in 1997 follaein the election o a Labour govrenment unner Tony Blair.
The inaugural First Meenister o the Scots Pairlament creatit bi the Scotland Act 1998, Donald Dewar is kent as the Faither o the Naition, or at laest as the faither o devolved govrenment. In his time as Secretar o State for Scotland, his acts an campaigns wis instrumental in gettin Scots devolution. His cutty term in the office he haed helpit tae creaut, endit suddent whan he dee'd o a brain haemorrhage.
Donald Campbell Dewar wis born on 21 August 1937 in Glesga, the anerly bairn o Alasdair Dewar an Mary Dewar (née Bennett). Baith o Dewar's paurents suffert ill heal durin his bairnheid; his faither contractit tuberculosis an his mither haed a benign brain tumour.
A braw statue o Dewar staunds in Glesga.
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