1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallsend Constituency – Biography of McKay

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wallsend

CANDIDATE : McKay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. McKay, who represented the division in the last Parliament, worked in the pits from the age of 12. He was sent by the Northumberland miners to Ruskin College, Oxford, and on returning to the mines became a checkweighman and a member of the executive committee of the Northumberland Miners’ Union. He served for a time on the Newcastle City Council.

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