1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dearne Valley Constituency – Biography of Paling

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dearne Valley

CANDIDATE : Paling

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Wilfred Paling, M.P. for the Wentworth division since 1933, had the largest maj-ority, 35,410, in the 1945 General Election. He had previously represented Don-caster. He was Labour deputy Chief Whip from 1935 to 1941, and successively Minister of Pensions and Postmaster-General. Born in 1883, he worked as a boy with his father at the coal face, married at 20, later studied mining at University College, Nottingham, and became a checkweighman.

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