1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester South West Constituency – Biography of Bowden

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester South West

CANDIDATE : Bowden

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Bowden, aged 44, is the retiring member for the former South Leicester division, which he won in 1945. He lives in Leicester, and in 1938 was elected to the Leicester City Council, but resigned on his election to Parliament. He was in the R.A.F. during the war, and was commissioned in administrative duties. He was appointed an assistant Whip in February, 1949.

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