British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency – Biography of Herrick

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Herrick

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Herrick was born in Birmingham 50 years ago and went to work in a Hyde cotton mill at the age of 13. After long unemployment he became a miner and is now in the engineering industry. He served in the R.A.F. in a glider training unit during the war. Formerly in the Labour Party, he failed by seven votes to secure election to the local town council.


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