1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westhoughton Constituency – Biography of Davies

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westhoughton

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Davies, aged 72, has been M.P. for this division since 1921. He started work at 13 as a farm labourer, then became a miner, and afterwards a Cooperative Society cashier. He organized shop assistants and in 1906 became an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Union, remaining with the union for over 40 years. He was Undersecretary at the Home Office in the 1924 Labour Government, and served 10 years on Manchester City Council. His special interests in Parliament have been social insurance, factory legislation, and world peace.

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