British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Shettleston Constituency – Biography of McEwen

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Shettleston

CANDIDATE : McEwen

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. McEwen, a journalist on the staff of the Daily Worker in London, fought the Dunbartonshire by-election in 1941. At 26, he was the first Labour member of Ross County Council, and joined the Communist Party in 1939. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University.


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