| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable | ||||||||
| The Lord Anderson of Swansea | |||||||||
| Office: | Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee | ||||||||
| Term Start: | 16 July 1997 | ||||||||
| Term End: | 12 July 2005 | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | David Howell | ||||||||
| Successor: | Mike Gapes | ||||||||
| Office1: | Chair of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee | ||||||||
| Term Start1: | 20 November 1981 | ||||||||
| Term End1: | 13 May 1983 | ||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Leo Abse | ||||||||
| Successor1: | Gareth Wardell | ||||||||
| Office2: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | ||||||||
| Term Start2: | 28 June 2005 Life Peerage | ||||||||
| Office3: | Member of Parliament for Swansea East | ||||||||
| Term Start3: | 10 October 1974 | ||||||||
| Term End3: | 11 April 2005 | ||||||||
| Predecessor3: | Neil McBride | ||||||||
| Successor3: | Sian James | ||||||||
| Office4: | Member of Parliament for Monmouth | ||||||||
| Term Start4: | 31 March 1966 | ||||||||
| Term End4: | 29 May 1970 | ||||||||
| Predecessor4: | Peter Thorneycroft | ||||||||
| Successor4: | John Stradling Thomas
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| Birth Date: | 17 June 1939 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Swansea, Wales | ||||||||
| Nationality: | Welsh | ||||||||
| Party: | Labour | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Swansea University | ||||||||
Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea (born 17 June 1939) is a Welsh Labour politician, who was one of the longest-serving Members of Parliament in recent years, his service totalling 34 years.[1] Since 2005, he has served as a Labour peer in the House of Lords.
Anderson was born in Swansea and educated at the local Brynmill Primary School and Swansea Grammar School before studying at Swansea University.
He entered the House of Commons in 1966 for Monmouth until being defeated in 1970 by the Conservative John Stradling Thomas.
From 1971 to 1974, he was a resident in Kensington and Chelsea and councillor in a neighbouring borough.
He then re-entered the Commons in October 1974, as MP for Swansea East. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2000,[2] and retired from Parliament at the 2005 general election.
In 2003, he voted in favour of the Iraq War.[3]
In the 2005 Dissolution Honours, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Anderson of Swansea, of Swansea in the County of West Glamorgan. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of West Glamorgan in January 2006. Anderson is affiliated to Labour Friends of Israel.
Anderson married Dorothy Trotman in 1963 and has three sons.