1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Watson
CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar
CANDIDATE : Watson
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Watson, full-time leader of the dockers, lightermen, and seamen in the Port of London, began work as a messenger at Canning Town, where he attended Star Lane School. At 16 he became an apprentice lighterman, and later was a foreman lighterman and afterwards mate of a tug.
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