British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlisle Constituency – Biography of Hargreaves

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlisle

CANDIDATE : Hargreaves

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Hargreaves is an official of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He was hon. secretary of West Derby (Liverpool) Labour Party in 1926, and president of Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party in 1945. Since 1928 he has been on the city council, and he is a member of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board as the nominee of the Ministry of Transport. He is active in the W.E.A. movement, and on the Liverpool Council of Social Service.


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