1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Key

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Key

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Key, who was appointed Minister of Works in 1947 was formerly a schoolmaster. He is one of the pioneers of the Labour movement in East London, and followed Mr. George Lansbury as member for Bow and Bromley in 1940. He was on the Poplar Council for 30 years, and mayor of the borough three times. In the war he became a Civil Defence Commissioner for London, after being chairman of Poplar Civil Defence Committee. His other public work included chairmanship of the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee.

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