Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson (born May 17, 1950, London, England) is a British Labour Party politician who served as secretary of state for health (2007–09) and home secretary (2009–10) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Orphaned at age 12, Johnson was raised by his older sister in a government housing project. He left school at 15 to work as a stock boy at a grocery store. In 1968 he took a job as a postman...