Jennie Adamson

Who was Jennie Adamson?

Janet Laurel Adamson was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She sat in the House of Commons from 1938 to 1946, and served as a junior minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.

From 1928 to 1931, Adamson was a member of London County Council for Lambeth North. She served on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1927 to 47.

Adamson unsuccessfully contested Dartford at the 1935 general election, when the sitting Conservative MP Frank Clarke held the seat with a significantly reduced majority. However, Clarke died in July 1938, and at the resulting by-election in November 1938, Adamason won the seat on on a swing of 4.2%.

The constituency was divided in boundary changes for the 1945 general election, when Adamson was elected with a large majority for the new Bexley constituency. She served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1940 to 1945 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions from 1945 to 1946, under minister Wilfred Paling.

Adamson resigned from Parliament in 1946, becoming Deputy Chair of the Unemployment Assistance Board from 1946 to 1953.