1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Belper Constituency – Biography of Brown

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Belper

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Brown, aged 34, won Belper in 1945. He began his working life as a shop assistant, and later became a full-time official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Labour until 1947, and afterwards with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Later he became joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture. He served on the Hertfordshire War Agricultural Committee.

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