1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leyton Constituency – Biography of Sorensen

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leyton

CANDIDATE : Sorensen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Sorensen has represented the old West Leyton division in Parliament since 1935 and from 1929 to 1931. At the 1945 election he had a majority of 8,729. He started work at 14 as an errand boy, studied to enter the ministry, and became minister of the Free Christian Church, Walthamstow. In 1923 he joined the local Labour Party and became a member of the Walthamstow Council and of the Essex County Council. He is keenly interested in Colonial affairs and is a vice-president of the Indian Friendship League and a member of the Fabian Colonial Bureau Advice Committee.

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