Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter

The Lord Salter
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
Born
James Arthur Salter

15 March 1881
Died27 June 1975 (aged 94)
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford

James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, GBE, KCB, PC (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.