1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn East Constituency – Biography of Leavey

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East

CANDIDATE : Leavey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Leavey, 35, is a director of a weaving and spinning concern in Colne, and managing director of another business at j^elson. During the war he served with the tnmskilling Dragoons in France and Belgium oetore the retreat and returned to France with l«em soon after D Day. He held the rank of major on demobilization. He is chairman of uie Gisburn branch of the Skipton Conservative Association.

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