1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dagenham Constituency – Biography of Parker

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dagenham

CANDIDATE : Parker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Parker, aged 43, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Dominions Office in 1945-46, and has been a Member of Parliament since 1935. He has been vice-chairman of the Fabian Society since 1946, and a member of the Labour Party executive. In 1945 he was a member of a Parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union, and he has been a member of the Transport and General Workers’ Union Group in the House of Commons. He served at one time as Parliamentary private secretary to Miss Ellen Wilkinson at the Ministry of Home Security.

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