1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester Constituency – Biography of McKinnon

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chester

CANDIDATE : McKinnon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. C. McKinnon, a Presbyterian minister in Liverpool, was the founder of the Labour Party in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and introduced the Co-operative movement there. A padre during the war, he won the M.C. at Salerno for saving wounded under fire.

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