1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Wallace

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow East

CANDIDATE : Wallace

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Wallace, born in 1885, has been a candidate in every General Election since 1918, at Bury until 1924, and in Walthamstow since. He represented East Walthamstow from 1929 to 1931, and from 1945. He was chairman of the Postmen’s Federation in 1918 and secretary of the outdoor grades of the Union of Post Office Workers until 1945. He is an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council.

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