1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent South Constituency – Biography of Smith

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke-on-Trent South

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ellis Smith sat for Stoke from 1935. In the early part of the last Parliament he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade when Sir Stafford Cripps was the President, but resigned for personal reasons. Born at Eccles and now aged 53, he was first employed as a pattern worker, served in the first world war, and afterwards entered the trade union movement, being for 10 years secretary of the Eccles Trades and Labour Council and for 20 years president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Trades Council.

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