1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cornwall North Constituency – Biography of Foot

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Dingle Foot, who was born in Plymouth in 1905, is a son of Mr. Isaac Foot. He was called to the Bar when he was 25, and practises on the Western Circuit. In 1931 he was elected M.P. for Dundee, a constituency which he represented for 14 years. In Mr. Churchill’s war-time Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. He was present at the San Francisco Conference which framed the United Nations Charter.

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