title: Thomas Urwin (politician)
text: # Thomas Urwin (politician)
  
  Thomas William Urwin (9 June 1912 – 14 December 1985) was a British Labour Party politician.
  
  Urwin worked as a trade union organiser and was divisional secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers. He served as a councillor on Houghton-le-Spring Urban District Council, latterly as chairman from 1954 until 1955.
  
  Urwin was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton-le-Spring from 1964 to 1983. He was a minister for Economic Affairs from 1968 to 1969, and for Local Government and Regional Planning from 1969 to 1970.
  
  