1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Attlee

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Attlee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister since 1945, and now in his sixty-eighth year, represented Limehouse in Parliament continuously from 1922 until the dissolution. He was educated at Haileybury and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1905. As secretary of Toynbee Hall he gained a wide knowledge of life among the people of East London, and he was for a year Mayor of Stepney. During the 1914-18 war he served in The South Lancashire Regiment and the Tank Corps, and retired in 1919 with the rank of major. In the first Labour Government he became Under-Secretary of State for War and in the second was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Postmaster-General. From 1935 to 1940 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House, but with the formation of the National Government he became, first, Lord Privy Seal, and later Secretary of State for the Dominions and Lord President of the Council. From 1942 he was Deputy Prime Minister. When the Labour Party were returned to power he became Prime Minister and, for a time, combined that office with the post of Minister of Defence. An outstanding feature of his period of office was the grant of self-government to India and the completion of the legislative programme included in the Labour Party manifesto at the 1945 election.

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