1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cannock Constituency – Biography of Lee

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cannock

CANDIDATE : Lee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Jennie Lee was born in 1904 and is the daughter of a miner. She won scholarships to Edinburgh University, became a teacher, and later a journalist. She is joint editor of the Tribune, which before 1945 was edited by her husband, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health. Miss Lee first sat in Parliament from 1929 to 1931 for North Lanark, and returned in 1945 for Cannock.

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