1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cardiff South East Constituency – Biography of Callaghan

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cardiff South East

CANDIDATE : Callaghan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Callaghan was elected for Cardiff South in 1945 and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport in 1947. He was born in 1912. A member of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation since 1929, he was from 1936 until recently assistant secretary. At the outbreak of war he joined the Navy as an able seaman and was later promoted lieutenant, R.N.V.R. He has visited the West African colonies and Russia, and was chairman of the Defence and Services Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1945-47.

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