1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of Wilson

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huyton

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Harold Wilson became M.P. for Orms-kirk in 1945 and President of the Board of Trade in 1947. Previously he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Secretary for Overseas Trade. At Oxford he won first-class honours in economics and became a research fellow. He was at one time a lecturer in economics at New College, and was an economic assistant in the War Cabinet secretariat, 1940-41.

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