British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Willesden East Constituency – Biography of Orbach

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Willesden East

CANDIDATE : Orbach

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Orbach won the seat for Labour in 1945. Born in 1902 in Cardiff, he went to London in 1915, and has been a member of the L.C.C. He was in the tobacco trade before the war, and is now general secretary of the Trades Advisory Council. As an M.P. he travelled to Australia, the United States and Western Europe on lecture tours.


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