1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rugby Constituency – Biography of Brown

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rugby

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Brown sat as Labour M.P. for West Wolverhampton in the 1929-31 Parliament, but afterwards left the Labour Party and was twice unsuccessful before he won Rugby at a by-election in 1942 as an?Independent candidate. Born in 1909, he entered the Civil Service. From 1919 to 1942 he was general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association, and since 1942 has been its Parliamentary general secretary. He is a broadcaster and writer on current affairs.

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