1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Halifax Constituency – Biography of Pickles

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Halifax

CANDIDATE : Pickles

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Pickles is the elder brother of Wilfred Pickles, the broadcaster. Born in 1901 he was articled to a local architect, and for the past 20 years has been in practice on his own account. As chairman of the Halifax housing committee he opened last summer its one-thousandth post-war house. During the war he became chairman of the civil defence committee.

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