1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ebbw Vale Constituency – Biography of Bevan

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ebbw Vale

CANDIDATE : Bevan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, has sat in Parliament for the Ebbw Vale division since 1929. He was born in Tredegar in 1897 and started work in the Tredegar collieries at an early age. Prominent in trade union affairs, he was soon on the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, gained a seat on the county council, and in 1921 was a leader of demonstrations of unemployed seeking assistance from the local Poor Law authorities. During the war he became conspicuous for his criticisms of the Coalition Government. His appointment as Minister of Health when the last Government took office was his first Government post.

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