Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood (8 February 1880 – 9 June 1954) was a British politician. A prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s, Greenwood rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924. He served as Minister of Health in the second Labour government between 1929 and 1931, later becoming Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 1935 under Clement Attlee.
In 1940, he was appointed to Winston Churchill's War Cabinet when Labour joined the wartime coalition government. During the May 1940 war cabinet crisis he emerged as the most vocal supporter of Churchill’s position that Britain should continue fighting Nazi Germany in World War II.
He also played a role in the postwar Attlee government, helping to establish the National Health Service.
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