1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee West Constituency – Biography of Strachey

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dundee West

CANDIDATE : Strachey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. J. St. L. Strachey, Minister of Food, in the last government, was born at Guild-ford in 1901 and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. A Conservative when he went to Oxford, he joined the Labour Party in 1924 and fought Aston (Birmingham), which seat he won in 1929. In 1931, with Sir Oswald Mosley, he resigned from the Labour Party, but later denounced Mosley’s Fascist tendencies. He joined the R.A.F. in 1941, gave broadcasts on the air war, and left the Service as a wing commander. Elected junior M.P. for Dundee in 1945, he became Undersecretary at the Air Ministry, and succeeded Sir Ben Smith as Minister of Food in 1946.

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