1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Vauxhall Constituency – Biography of Strauss

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Vauxhall

CANDIDATE : Strauss

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Strauss, Minister of Supply and M.P. for North Lambeth until the dissolution, was first elected for that constituency in 1929. Defeated in 1931, he was re-elected in 1934, and has served continuously since. He has been Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Herbert Morrison and Sir Stafford Cripps, and before his appointment as Minister of Supply was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. A member of the Labour Party for 30 years, he was expelled in 1939 for supporting the Cripps ” Popular Front ” campaign. He was formerly a leading member of the L.C.C., on which body his wife now represents Vauxhall. He is in business as a metal merchant.

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