British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of MacDonald

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : MacDonald

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. R. MacDonald is the son of a Conservative ex-mayor of Louth (Lines), where he was born in 1912. Leaving school at 16, he was apprenticed in his father’s engineering business, then worked for three years as a constructional engineer, and began dairy farming in 1936. He owns 100 acres, which he farms intensively and markets his own produce as well as running a butcher’s business. The first Labour member of the Louth Borough Council, he was last year elected to the Lindsey County Council.


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