1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenock Constituency – Biography of Campbell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenock

CANDIDATE : Campbell

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Campbell contested the constituency in 1945. He is a member of the executive of the Communist Party and was appointed editor of the Daily Worker about a year ago. He was directly involved in the overthrow of the Labour Government in 1924, and in 1925 was arrested, along with other members of the Communist Party, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. He won the military medal in the 1914-18 war?

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