1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Swansea East Constituency – Biography of Mort

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Swansea East

CANDIDATE : Mort

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. L. Mort was born in 1888, educated at an elementary school, and has been a steel-worker. He has been a member of Neath Borough Council and has held all the local offices in the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. He was first elected for Swansea East in 1940, and was at one time Parliamentary private sacretary to Lord (then Sir William) Jowitt.

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