1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Llanelli Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Griffiths was Minister of National Insurance in the last Government. He entered Parliament at a by-election in 1936 for Llanelly, and has retained the seat ever since. Born in 1890, he first worked in the coal mines,?went to the National Labour College in London, and in 1924 became miners’ agent under the South Wales Miners’ Federation and later was president of the Association. He is a former chairman of the executive of the Labour Party.

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