1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Small Heath Constituency – Biography of Longden

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Small Heath

CANDIDATE : Longden

PARTY : Co-op, and Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Longden, who is a native of Ashton-under-Lyne, is aged 58. At Ruskin College he earned a diploma with distinction in economics and political science. He engaged in propaganda on behalf of the I.L.P. and the Co-operative movement. He was first returned to Parliament for the Deritend division in 1929, was defeated in 1931, and recaptured the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. He is an iron-moulder.

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