1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hereford Constituency – Biography of Thomas

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hereford

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. L. Thomas, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, has represented Hereford since 1931. He was a member of the secretariat of Mr. Stanley Baldwin when Leader of the Opposition. For two years he was Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in the war-time Government, and a leading spokesman for the Opposition on naval questions in the last Parliament. Born in 1903, he was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford.

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