George Buchanan, Social Reformer
By the Peace Treaties. We were all Puritans. We were all abstainers.
Most of us did not smoke. We were the stuff of which reform is made.
George Buchanan was born in Glasgow , Scotland, in 1890.
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.
George knew the human side of poverty and worked throughout his life to better the condition of his fellow Scotsman.
He joined the Independent Labour Party and began working closely with other socialists in Glasgow George Buchanan was vice-chairman of Glasgow Trade Council and represented Gorbals on the City Council (1919-23). In the 1922 General Election Buchanan was elected to the House of Commons for Gorbals.
In 1932 Buchanan became chairman of the United Pattern makers Association of Great Britain. A position he held for sixteen years. In 1939 Buchanan joined the Labour Party. Following the 1945 General Election, the new prime minister, Clement Attlee , appointed Buchanan as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. He also served as Minister of Pensions (October 1947 to July 1948). Buchanan retired from Parliament in 1948 to became Chairman of the National Assistance Board (1948-1953).
George Buchanan died on 28 June 1955, aged 65.