David Gibson was a Scottish socialist politician.
Gibson joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and at the 1935 general election was its candidate in Stirling East and Clackmannan."I.L.P. Candidate", Manchester Guardian, 15 October 1935 He was elected to Glasgow City Council,"I.L.P. to fight Renfrew", Manchester Guardian, 23 March 1940 and he stood unsuccessfully in the 1947 Liverpool Edge Hill by-election.
In 1948, Gibson succeeded Robert Edwards as chairman of the ILP.LSE Library Archives Catalogue: Independent Labour Party As chairman, he focussed on opposing war, and feared that the North Atlantic Treaty would lead to a Third World War."'Atlantic Pact will lead to war' - I.L.P. Chairman", Manchester Guardian, 17 April 1949
Gibson was succeeded as chairman by Fred Barton in 1951, and focussed on his role as chair of the Glasgow Corporation's Housing sub-Committee on Sites and Buildings, working to build council housing in the city as rapidly as possible.Jane M Jacobs, Stephen Cairns & Ignaz Strebel, "'A tall storey... but, a fact just the same': The Red Road highrise as a black box", Institute of Geography Online Paper Series: GEO-023 At the 1951 general election, Gibson was selected as the party's candidate for Glasgow Shettleston, but he withdrew shortly before the election, to the disappointment of the party. In 1953, he resigned from the ILP and joined the Labour Party.The Word, vol.15/16, p.99
By 1961, Gibson was the baillie - most senior magistrate - of Glasgow and was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament."CND March in Glasgow", The Guardian, 16 October 1961
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