1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burnley Constituency – Biography of Burke

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Burke

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. w. A. Burke, who was elected for Burnley in 1935 was Assistant Postmaster-General from 1945 to 1947.He entered commercial life in Manchester in 1918, and two later became Manchester organizer of the National union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

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