1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Keighley Constituency – Biography of Hobson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Keighley

CANDIDATE : Hobson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. R. Hobson was appointed Assistant Postmaster-General in 1947. A native of Leeds, he is a power station engineer. In 1931 he was elected a member of Willesden Borough Council, and four years later was made an alderman. He has had a long association with the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was elected M.P. for Wembley North in 1945.

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