1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woodford Constituency – Biography of Churchill

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woodford

CANDIDATE : Churchill

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and Minister of Defence from May, 1940, to July, 1945, when his Government was defeated at the polls. Since then he has been Leader of the Opposition. The eldest son of Lord Randolph Churchill, third son of the seventh Duke of Marlborough, he was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and before entering politics was commissioned in the 4th Hussars. He was returned to Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative for Oldham, but joined the Liberal Party and successfully contested Northwest Manchester at the 1906 election. From 1908 to 1922 he sat for Dundee, and re-entered Parliament in 1924 for Epping, and soon afterwards returned to the Conservative fold. Mr. Churchill has held more ministerial posts than any other politician, the most notable being his two terms as First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of each of the two World Wars, and office as Prime Minister in May, 1940, when the fortunes of the allies were rapidly declining. His vision and leadership inspired the British people with the will to win during the long year when they stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany. Mr. Churchill is universally recognized as the architect of the victory of the United Nations, and ?n more recent years he has been closely identified with the project for the Council of Europe, which was established at Strasbourg last summer. He is the author of many famous books, the best known of which are ” The World Crisis “—his history of the 1914-18 war—and ” Marlborough,” and has published the first two volumes of his history of the 1939-45 war. He is in his seventy-sixth year.

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