1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Easington Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Easington

CANDIDATE : Shinwell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Shinwell has?represented the Seaham division, now mostly included in Easington, since 1935, when he defeated Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He had previously represented Linlithgow for two periods. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office in 1929-30, and Secretary for Mines in 1924 and again in 1930-31. As Minister of Fuel and Power at the beginning of the last Parliament he piloted the Bill nationalizing the coal mines through the Commons, and in 1947 he was appointed Secretary of State for War.

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