1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Isaacs

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

CANDIDATE : Isaacs

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Isaacs, first entered Parliament in 1923, as member for Gravesend, represented North Southwark from 1929 to 1931, and was returned as its member at a by-election in 1939. He was Minister of Labour and National Service throughout the late Parliament. Born 66 years ago in Finsbury, of working-class parents, he went into the printing trade. Early interested in trade unionism he became general secretary of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants at the age of 25. He has since been president of the Printing and Kindred Trades’ Federation, mayor of Southwark, and chairman of the Trades Union Congress.

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