Joy Morrissey
Joy Morrissey | |
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Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield | |
Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
Preceded by | Dominic Grieve |
Majority | 15,712 (27.1%) |
Ealing London Borough Councillor for Hanger Hill | |
In office 22 May 2014 – 13 April 2020[1] | |
Personal details | |
Born | Joyce Rebekah Inboden 30 January 1981 Indiana, United States |
Nationality | British and American |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) |
Matthew Mark Damschroder
(m. 2001, divorced)William Morrissey |
Alma mater | Ohio State University London School of Economics |
Website | joymorrissey |
Joyce Rebekah "Joy" Morrissey (née Inboden; born 30 January 1981) is an American-born British Conservative Party politician.[2] She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield since the 2019 general election.[3]
Early life
Morrissey was born Joyce Rebekah Inboden on 30 January 1981 as the eldest child of Scott William Inboden and Deborah Onieta Crowley, who married on 23 December 1978 in Summit County, Ohio. Joy has four younger siblings: Christopher, Tad, David, and Karis.[4] She attended Worthington Christian High School and graduated in 1999.[5] Morrissey received a master's degree specialising in European Social Policy from the London School of Economics.[6]
Political career
Morrissey was elected as a Conservative councillor on the Ealing Council, where she represented the ward of Hanger Hill, until April 2020.
She was a London-wide list candidate at the 2016 London Assembly election but failed to win her seat.
She unsuccessfully contested Ealing Central and Acton in the 2017 general election.
She unsuccessfully sought nomination to be the London Conservatives mayoral candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election and made it through to the final three short list.
In 2019 Morrissey was selected as the new Conservative candidate for Beaconsfield. At the snap December election Morrissey defeated former Conservative Dominic Grieve, who had represented Beaconsfield for 22 years, who contested the seat as an Independent. She was elected with a significantly reduced vote share and majority,[3] becoming the third American-born female MP overall, the first to enter Parliament after a general election, and also the first American woman in more than 80 years to receive votes as a winning candidate. Connecticut-born Beatrice Rathbone, also a Conservative, was elected unopposed for Bodmin after a 1941 by-election.
In 2020, Morrissey was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Acting career
During her 2017 candidacy for Ealing Central and Acton, Morrissey's Hollywood performances were commented upon by the British press. Featuring under her stage name Joy Boden, she appeared in a low-budget film named Geek Mythology, in which she wore a basque and rode on the back of a man wearing a cowboy hat.[7]
References
- ^ "Councillor Joy Morrissey". Ealing Council. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ Jones, Amy (9 November 2019). "Meet the Brexiteer candidate taking on Dominic Grieve in this general election". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Beaconsfield parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC.com. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ "Meet Buzz". Worthington Christian School. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Worthington Christian grad earns a spot in UK's House of Commons". Worthington Christian School. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "London mayoral race: Conservative candidate profiles". BBC News. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Tory candidate's acting career saw her ride a man like a pantomime horse in a comedy 'bonk fest'". Mirror.co.uk. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- Living people
- American emigrants to England
- UK MPs 2019–
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Parliamentary Private Secretaries
- Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- 21st-century British women politicians
- Conservative Party (UK) councillors
- Councillors in the London Borough of Ealing
- British actresses
- People from the London Borough of Ealing
- People from Buckinghamshire
- Ohio State University alumni
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- 1981 births
- Conservative MP for England stubs
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