1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Motherwell Constituency – Biography of Anderson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Motherwell

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Anderson, born in 1888, and educated at Pulteneytown Academy and Edinburgh University, where he took his M.A., was a school teacher for 30 years. He was a local councillor for 16 years, and during the war acted as convener of civil defence. He has been a member of several Parliamentary delegations abroad. He won Motherwell for the Labour Party in 1945.

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