1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Widnes Constituency – Biography of MacColl

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Widnes

CANDIDATE : MacColl

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. MacColl is a barrister born in 1908 and educated at Sedbergh and Balliol College. Oxford. He took a fellowship in Economics at Chicago University, and, returning to England was called to the Bar, practising on the North-Eastern Circuit until 1939. He served in the civil defence organization in London during the war. He was elected to Paddington Borough Council in 1934, was mayor in 1947-49, and for 10 years served on the L.C.C. education committee. He is a member of the Hemel Hempstead New Town Development Corporation, and has broadcast on local government and town planning.

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