1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne North Constituency – Biography of Shackleton

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Shackleton was the Labour candidate in 1945, and is 49. He went to a council school in Bradford, but his parents moved to Newcastle and he was apprenticed to engineering. He worked as maintenance engineer and later became assistant divisional organizer for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.

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