1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Watford Constituency – Biography of Freeman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Watford

CANDIDATE : Freeman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Freeman, who was appointed in 1947 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, captured Watford from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. Born in 1915, he was educated at Westminster School, and Brasenose College, Oxford, and until 1940 was an advertising consultant. He saw much active service during the last war. Soon after entering Parliament he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for War. Subsequently he was Under-Secretary of State for War.

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