Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter

The Right Honourable The Lord Salter GBE KCB PC
Minister of Materials
In office 24 November 1952 – 1 September 1953
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	The Viscount Swinton
Succeeded by	The Lord Woolton
Minister for Economic Affairs
In office 26 October 1951 – 24 November 1952
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Hugh Gaitskell
Succeeded by	George Brown (Sec. of State)
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 25 May 1945 – 26 July 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Ernest Brown
Succeeded by	John Hynd
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport
In office 29 June 1941 – 23 May 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	John Llewellin
Succeeded by	Peter Thorneycroft
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping
In office 13 November 1939 – 29 June 1941
Prime Minister	Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Leslie Wilson (1919)
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 12 November 1953 – 27 June 1975 Hereditary peerage
Member of Parliament for Ormskirk
In office 5 April 1951 – 12 November 1953
Preceded by	Ronald Cross
Succeeded by	Douglas Glover
Member of Parliament for Oxford University
In office 27 February 1937 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	Hugh Cecil
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	James Arthur Salter 15 March 1881
Died	27 June 1975 (aged 94)
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford

James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, GBE, KCB, PC (15 March 1881 – 27 June 1975) was a British civil servant, politician, and academic who was a significant politician behind the concept of European political union, often in conjunction with his close friend and colleague Jean Monnet.