1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Don Valley Constituency – Biography of Taylor

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Don Valley

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Taylor, began work in the mines at the age of 14, and led a strike at Barnsley main colliery at the age of 21. A member of the Yorkshire District Committee of the Communist Party and chairman of the Barnsley branch, he was elected secretary of the Brierly (Ferry Moor) branch of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1942. He is 40.

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