1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Darwen Constituency – Biography of Booth

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Booth

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Booth was unsuccessful at West Leeds in the 1945 election. Aged 36, he was Britain’s youngest barrister when called to the Bar in 1936. Three years later he became town clerk of Ossett. He was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F. during the war.

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