1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Lindgren

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wellingborough

CANDIDATE : Lindgren

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. S. Lindgren was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1946, and was previously Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance. He was born in 1900 and educated at an L.C.C. elementary school. He became a railway clerk, and for many years was on the executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. The first Labour member of the Hertfordshire County Council, he was elected an alderman in 1939 and served until last year. During the war he was Deputy Regional Commissioner for the West Midlands.

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