1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lee

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newton

CANDIDATE : Lee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Lee, who has served as Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps, was M.P. for the former Hulme division of Manchester, and was selected for Newton to succeed Sir Robert Young, who retired at the dissolution. Born in 1908, and receiving an elementary education, Mr. Lee led the 23,000 employees of a Manchester engineering company as chairman of the works committee.

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