1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bishop Auckland Constituency – Biography of Dalton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bishop Auckland

CANDIDATE : Dalton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Dalton has been M.P. for the division since 1935, and also in 1929-31, and previously sat for Peckham. In the second Labour Government he was Under – Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and in Mr. Churchill’s wartime Government he was Minister for Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade. In 1945 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, from which he resigned in November, 1947. After a short period as a back bencher he returned to the Government as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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