Arthur Greenwood

Arthur Greenwood 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.