1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Halifax Constituency – Biography of Blackburn

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Halifax

CANDIDATE : Blackburn

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Blackburn was born in 1906 at Sowerby Bridge. He is managing director of a Halifax firm of spinners, and for three years has been treasurer of the Bradford Dyers’ and Finishers’ Association. He was until recently a vice-president of the Bradford Conservative Association. He was nominated after the Conservative and Liberal associations in the division had failed to reach agreement on the proposal for a joint anti-Socialist candidate.

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