1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea North Constituency – Biography of Jay

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Jay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Douglas Jay, who was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in December, 1947, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of All Souls, he is a journalist and specialist in economics. He entered the Ministry of Supply in 1940 to help the munitions drive, and three years later went to the Board of Trade as personal assistant to Mr. Dalton to help in the planning of post-war industrial reconstruction. He was elected for Battersea North in 1946.

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