William Hughes, Baron Hughes CBE PC (22 January 1911 – 31 December 1999), was a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom. Hughes was elected to Dundee Town Council in 1933 at the age of 22. In 1954 he became Lord Provost of Dundee, a post he held until 1960, while he remained a councillor until 1961. He was also a Justice of the Peace for the city from 1943 until 1974. In the Second World War Hughes was Dundee's civil defense controller until 1943, when he joined the armed forces. He was commissioned in 1944, becoming a Captain by the end of the conflict. He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in India. Burma and Borneo. He stood in the 1945 and 1950 general elections as the Labour Party's candidate for Perth (known as Perth and East Perthshire from 1950), but was not elected, bef