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

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 : Lang

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. Gordon Lang was born in 1893 and educated at ?on-mouth Grammar School and Theological College. Joining the Labour Party in 1916, he was senior M.P. for Oldham, 1929-31, and was elected for Stalybridge and Hyde in 1945, after fighting Old-ham in 1931 and 1935 and the Stalybridge by-election in 1937. A member of the Fabian Society, he led Parliamentary delegations to Japan in 1946 and 1947. He is on the Chairmen’s Panel at the House, chairman of the Proportional Representation Society, a founder member of Christian Action, and is on the international executive of the European Movement.

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