YOUNGEST SINCE PITT
MR WILSON ENTERS CABINET
ACADEMIC AND CIVIL SERVICE CAREER
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m>) LONDON, Sept. 30. From school to the Cabinet in 14 years, with the intervening period crammed with brilliant achievements, sums up the career of the new President of the Board of Trade, Mr J. H. Wilson. At 31 he is the youngest politician to reach Cabinet rank since Pitt became Chancellor in 1782 at the age of Mr Wilson made his way by scholarships to Oxford, where he became a don at the age of 21 • and a Fellow of University College at 22. He volunteered for the forces at the outbreak of the war, but was chosen in 1940 as Economic Assistant for the War Cabinet Secretariat. He became Director of Economics and Statistics at the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1943, and prepared the White Paper on the rain-, ing industry. He resigned from the Civil Service to enter Parliament at the 1945 election. . , , Mr Wilson is plump, brisk, and smiling. He has outdistanced all the other young members on the Government benches.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25303, 1 October 1947, Page 7
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