British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke Newington and Hackney North Constituency – Biography of Weitzman

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke Newington and Hackney North

CANDIDATE : Weitzman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Weitzman, who was born in 1898 and educated at Hutche-son Grammar School, Glasgow, and at Glasgow and Manchester Universities, unsuccessfully contesting Stoke Newington in 1931 and again in 1935. He was elected in 1945. He is a barrister, and has a son and daughter who are both reading for the Bar. He served in the first world war in the 3rd Battn. The Manchester Regiment.


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