1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rowley Regis and Tipton Constituency – Biography of Henderson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rowley Regis and Tipton

CANDIDATE : Henderson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Henderson, K.C., is a son of the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, 1929-31. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1921 and took silk in 1939. He was M.P. for South Cardiff in 1923 and again in 1929 and represented Kingswin-ford from 1935 until its extinction in the redistribution. He held a number of junior Ministerial posts between 1940 and 1945, and in the last Government became Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma, then Minister for Commonwealth Relations, and finally Secretary of State for Air.

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