1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Putney Constituency – Biography of Chaplin

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Putney

CANDIDATE : Chaplin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Irene Chaplin is better known politically by her maiden name of Irene Marcouse, in which she unsuccessfully fought Holborn in the 1945 election. She was coopted to the Holborn Borough Council in 1939, and after 1945 became leader of the majority until 1949. Since elected to the London County Council as representative of East Islington in 1946, she has served on the education, town planning, and finance committees.

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