1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leigh Constituency – Biography of Boardman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leigh

CANDIDATE : Boardman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Boardman was for nine years an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Trades. At the time of his election in 1945 he was a member of the executive committee of the Sale Labour Party and the Altrincham Divisional Labour Party. He is a former member of Derby Town Council, and has been chairman of the Derby Labour Party. He has been chairman of Derby Labour College and chairman of the Derby Co-operative Society’s Joint Advisory Committee. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Labour.

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