1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Morrison

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Morrison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons, was born in 1888 and received his education at Stockwell Road Board School and Lingham Street Church of England School. He began work as an errand boy and shop assistant, and first entered public life as Mayor of Hackney in 1920. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1922, and in the next year became M.P. for South Hackney. For six years from 1934 he was Leader of the L.C.C. In the Labour Government of 1931 he became Minister of Transport; and in the War Coalition Government he first served as Minister of Supply and later as Home Secretary. In the 1945 election he successfully contested East Lewisham, and after the revision of the constituency chose to contest the new South division.

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