1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ogmore Constituency – Biography of Padley

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Padley

PARTY : lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Padley, is 33 and was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford. Active in the Labour movement since 1932, at one time he was a close colleague of James Maxton in the leadership of the I.L.P. He is president of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and from 1941 to 1946 was a member of the I.L.P. national council.

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