1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Thomas

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wrekin, The

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. O. Thomas, born in 1898, went to an elementary school, and started work as a barber’s lather boy at the age of 10. After a period in the tinplate industry he went into the railway service as an engine cleaner. He won a National Union of Rail-waymen scholarship to London Labour College, and became a member of the N.U.R. headquarters staff. He has been a member of Battersea Borough Council and the L.C.C.

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