1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rossendale Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony W. J. Greenwood is 38, and the son of Mr. Arthur Greenwood, former Cabinet Minister and Treasurer of the Labour Party. A former president of the Oxford Union, he was on the Ministry of Information staff in Russia and the Middle East early in the war, later serving as an R.A.F. officer. After the war he was with the Chiefs of Staff organization and the Reparations Commission. He entered Parliament in February, 1946, at a by-election at Heywood and Radcliffe.

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