1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland South Constituency – Biography of Ewart

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sunderland South

CANDIDATE : Ewart

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Ewart, elected as one of the two Sunderland members in 1945, was for eight years organizer of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union in South Shields, and became organizer for the Tees-side area in 1945. He is a former chairman of the Cleveland division Labour Party, and has served on the South Shields Town Council and the North Riding County Council. He was born in 1904.

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