1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Durham North West Constituency – Biography of Murray

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Durham North West

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Murray, who was born in 1887, began work in a Durham pit at 13 and was hewing coal at 16. He is a member of a family of 12 brought up in a miner’s three-roomed cottage. Later a colliery checkweighman, he was elected M.P. for the former Spennymoor Division in 1942. A member of the Labour Party since 1907, he has been a county councillor for 17 years and is chairman of the mines group of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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