1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bothwell Constituency – Biography of Timmons

January 7, 2023 admin 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bothwell

CANDIDATE : Timmons

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Timmons, born in 1891, had an elementary and technical education and worked in the pits before he was 13. For 20 years he was a checkweighman, and for 30 years branch secretary of the miners’ union. For many years he served on the executive of the Scottish area of the mine-workers’ union, on the Lanark County Council, on the panel of referees for the Ministry of Labour, and on the advisory committee to the Assistance Board.

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