Maurice Morrow facts for kids
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The Lord Morrow
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Morrow in 2022
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| Minister for Communities | |
| In office 12 January 2016 – 25 May 2016 |
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| First Minister | Arlene Foster |
| Preceded by | Mervyn Storey |
| Succeeded by | Paul Givan |
| Minister for Social Development | |
| In office 27 July 2000 – 24 October 2001 |
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| First Minister | David Trimble |
| Preceded by | Nigel Dodds |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Dodds |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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| Assumed office 7 June 2006 Life peerage |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fermanagh & South Tyrone |
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| In office 25 June 1998 – 26 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
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Maurice George Morrow
27 September 1948 Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Democratic Unionist Party |
| Children | 2 |
Maurice George Morrow, Baron Morrow (born 27 September 1948) is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland representing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) who has been Chairman of the DUP since 2000. He was made a life peer in June 2006. He was also a councillor on Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council representing Dungannon Town.
He was educated at Ballygawley Primary School, Dungannon Secondary and Dungannon Technical College, following which he pursued a career as an estate agent. His political career began in 1973 when he was elected to Fermanagh District Council. He served as a MLA of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998, until losing his seat in 2017. In July 2000 he became Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive, a position held until October 2001, during which time he was credited with implementing policies recognising the needs of the elderly, the farming community and introduced new measures to tackle welfare fraud.
It was announced on 11 April 2006 that Morrow would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created life peers, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords. He was created Baron Morrow, of Clogher Valley in the County of Tyrone, on 7 June 2006 and was formally introduced to the House of Lords on 27 June.
Recent history
In 2012 his constituency office in Dungannon was broken into and ransacked. Morrow vowed it would be business as usual despite the burglary.
The other DUP peers appointed as "working" life peers alongside Morrow in 2006 were Wallace Browne, former Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Eileen Paisley, a former vice-president of the DUP and wife of the late Leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley. At the same time, it was announced that David Trimble, former MP and former leader of the Ulster Unionists, was also being appointed as a working life peer.
Personal life
Morrow is married and has two daughters. He maintains an interest in rural development.
