1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hartlepools, The Constituency – Biography of Jones

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hartlepools, The

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. T. Jones, who is 50, won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945 with a majority of 275. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Transport. A former railway signalman, he was from 1934 until his election to Parliament a member of the Ponty-pridd Urban Council. In 1921 he was a branch chairman and secretary in the National Union of Railwaymen and then chairman of the South Wales and ?onmouthshire District Council of the Union. He is a member of the executive of the Welsh Federation of Education.

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