1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mansfield Constituency – Biography of Ellis

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Ellis

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Ellis, who is 47 and a former miner, was refused employment at the pits after the 1926 strike, but was recently elected checkweighman. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and became a staff-sergeant. A member of Hucknall Co-operative Society for 29 years, and now a director, he joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was its organizer in 1941-42.

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