1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Whitehaven Constituency – Biography of Anderson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Whitehaven

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Anderson entered Parliament in 1935 for Whitehaven. He entered the railway service at the age of 17 and was an active member of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He I is a former chairman of the Manchester and District Council of the N.U.R. He took a prominent part in the ‘ early work of the Cumberland Development Council, and is a director of several industrial enterprises introduced into the area.

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