1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn West Constituency – Biography of Edwards

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn West

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Edwards, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the last Parliament, became an M.P. in 1945, his third attempt, when he won Blackburn from the Conservatives. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health before his appointment to the Board of Trade. He is 45 years of age, and is a B.A. with honours in economics and political science, of Leeds University. In 1938 he was appointed general secretary of the G.P.O. Engineering Union.

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