1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontypridd Constituency – Biography of Pearson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pontypridd

CANDIDATE : Pearson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Pearson, a bachelor, born in 1897, was for 25 years a chair-maker at Pontypridd. For five years he was secretary of the local trades council and Labour Party and for 12 years was a member of the urban district council, and chairman in 1937. He sat on the county council for 17 years until 1945, and became an M.P. in 1938. He was a Government whip throughout the last Parliament, and has been Comptroller of the Household and Treasurer of the Household. He is a member of the county agricultural wages board.

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