1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenock Constituency – Biography of McNeil

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenock

CANDIDATE : McNeil

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hector McNeil made two unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament before being elected unopposed in this division at a by-election in 1941. He was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport in 1942, and in 1945 was appointed Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and later Minister of State, in which capacity he represented Great Britain at a number of important international proceedings, and frequently deputized for Mr. Ernest Bevin. Born in 1910 and educated at Glasgow University, he became a journalist on the staff of a Scottish national newspaper.

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