1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry South Constituency – Biography of Hore-Belisha

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry South

CANDIDATE : Hore-Belisha

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha was in Parliament continuously from 1924 until 1945 as representative of Devonport, first as a Liberal National and from 1942 as an Independent. He fought the 1945 General Election as a National candidate, and later joined the Conservative Party. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1931 and Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1932. As Minister of Transport he introduced the familiar ” Belisha beacons.” He was Secretary of State for War from 1937-40, and a member of the War Cabinet. While he was Minister of National Insurance in the ” caretaker ” Government, the family allowances measure was passed. Born in 1893 and educated at Oxford and Heidelberg, he served in Salonika in the first world war.

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