1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stepney Constituency – Biography of Edwards

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Edwards, who is 49, served as a naval stoker during the two world wars and was the first man to go diEect from the lower deck to the House of Commons, to which he was elected as member for White-chapel in 1942 and again in 1945. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty throughout the late Government. He was mayor of Stepney in 1944-45, and at one time a trade union organizer in the London docks.

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