Education
He was educated at Ballygawley Primary School, Dungannon Secondary and Dungannon Technical College, following which he pursued a career as an estate agent.
He was educated at Ballygawley Primary School, Dungannon Secondary and Dungannon Technical College, following which he pursued a career as an estate agent.
He is one of two Democratic Unionist MLAs for Fermanagh and South Tyrone alongside Arlene Foster, and was made a life peer in June 2006. He is also a councillor on Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council representing Dungannon Town. He has been an Modern Language Association in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998.
In July 2000 he became Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive, a position held until October 2001, during which time he was credited with implementing policies recognising the needs of the elderly, the farming community and introduced new measures to tackle welfare fraud.
He was created Baron Morrow, of Clogher Valley in the County of Tyrone, on 7 June 2006 and was formally introduced to the House of Lords on 27 June. All are to become "working" life peers.
At the same time, it was announced that David Trimble, former Member of Parliament and former leader of the Ulster Unionists, was also being appointed as a working life peer. Morrow is married and has two daughters.
He maintains an interest in rural development.
In 2012 his constituency office in Dungannon was broken into and ransacked. Maurice Morrow vowed it would be business as usual despite the burglary.
Morrow’s political career began in 1973 when he was elected to Fermanagh District Council. lieutenant was announced on 11 April 2006 that Morrow would be one of the first three members of the Democratic Unionist Party to be created life peers, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords.
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