1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merthyr Tydfil Constituency – Biography of Davies

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merthyr Tydfil

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. O. Davies has been Labour M.P. for Merthyr since 1934, and was a miner when he took a B.A. degree at the University of Wales. Later he was a check-weighman, miners’ agent at Dowlais, and a member for nine years of the Miners’ Federation executive. He is also a former vice-president of the South Wales Miners’ Federation. A tnember of Merthyr Corporation until he resigned last year, he was mayor in 1946-47.

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