1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wakefield Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wakefield

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Greenwood, who was born in 1880, is honorary treasurer of the Labour Party. In the first Labour Government in 1924 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, and in the 1929-31 Government he was Minister of Health. At the 1931 General Election he lost his seat at Nelson and Colne, but returned to 1he House the following year as Member for Wakefield. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party before the war. When Mr. Churchill for?ed his wartime Government in 1940, Mr. Greenwood became a member of the War Cabinet, but in 1942 he resigned. On Labour coming into power in 1945 he was appointed Lord Privy Seal. He became Paymaster-General in 1946 and was Minister without Portfolio from April to October, 1947.

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