British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee East Constituency – Biography of Cook

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dundee East

CANDIDATE : Cook

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Cook, an electrician, was elected senior member for Dundee in 1945. He is 41. Formerly a member of the I.L.P. and the Scottish Socialist Party, he joined the Labour Party in 1933. A lecturer in economics and industrial history for the National Council of Labour Colleges, he has been Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr.Harold Wilson at the Board of Trade.


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