Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC (18 July 1901 5 June 1993) was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979. Strauss was the son of the Conservative MP Arthur Strauss (1847 1920), who later joined the Labour Party. George Strauss was educated at Rugby School, where the hostile treatment experienced by him and other Jewish boys left him as a vehement supporter of racial equality. He became a metal merchant and a leading member of the London County Council, on which his wife also served.