1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds South Constituency – Biography of Gaitskell

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds South

CANDIDATE : Gaitskell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Gaitskell became Minister of Fuel and Power in 1946. He was born in 1906 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics. Later he became a lecturer on economics and was appointed head of the Department of Political Economy at London University in 1938. During the war he was private secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare and later to Mr. Hugh Dalton at the Board of Trade. He was elected for South Leeds in 1945.

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