1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bothwell Constituency – Biography of Timmons

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bothwell

CANDIDATE : Timmons

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Timmons, born in 1891, had an elementary and technical education and worked in the pits before he was 13. For 20 years he was a checkweighman, and for 30 years branch secretary of the miners’ union. For many years he served on the executive of the Scottish area of the mine-workers’ union, on the Lanark County Council, on the panel of referees for the Ministry of Labour, and on the advisory committee to the Assistance Board.

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