1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sedgefield Constituency – Biography of Slater

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sedgefield

CANDIDATE : Slater

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Slater, a miner, aged 46, recently received the B.E.M. for his public work and services to trade unionism. A member of Durham County Council, on which he is vice-chairman of the Highways and Bridges Committee, and formerly of Sedgefield R.D.C., he is treasurer and delegate of Mainsforth Miners’ Lodge, and has been a trade union official for 20 years.

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