Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter

The Lord Salter
Salter in 1936
Minister of Materials
In office
24 November 1952 – 1 September 1953
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byThe Viscount Swinton
Succeeded byThe Lord Woolton
Minister for Economic Affairs
In office
26 October 1951 – 24 November 1952
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byHugh Gaitskell
Succeeded byGeorge Brown (Sec. of State)
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
25 May 1945 – 26 July 1945
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byErnest Brown
Succeeded byJohn Hynd
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport
In office
29 June 1941 – 23 May 1945
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byJohn Llewellin
Succeeded byPeter Thorneycroft
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping
In office
13 November 1939 – 29 June 1941
Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Preceded byLeslie Wilson (1919)
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
12 November 1953 – 27 June 1975
Hereditary peerage
Member of Parliament
for Ormskirk
In office
5 April 1951 – 12 November 1953
Preceded byRonald Cross
Succeeded byDouglas Glover
Member of Parliament
for Oxford University
In office
27 February 1937 – 23 February 1950
Preceded byHugh Cecil
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
BornJames Arthur Salter
15 March 1881
Died27 June 1975 (aged 94)
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford
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James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, (15 March 1881 – 27 June 1975) was a British civil servant, politician, and academic who was a significant politician behind the concept of European political union, often in conjunction with his close friend and colleague Jean Monnet.