British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs Constituency – Biography of Curran

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : Curran

PARTY : Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Curran, another unsuccessful candidate in the by-election, is, at the age of 26, the youngest provost in Scotland. Most of his boyhood was spent in Northern Ontario, where his father was employed with a gold mining company. Returning to Alva at the age of 14, he became a member of the town council in 1945 and provost last year.


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