1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Proctor

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Proctor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Proctor won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Formerly a railway worker, Mr. Proctor is a former branch secretary of the National Union of Rail-waymen, and was once its representative on the International Transport Federation. He was born in 1896.

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