British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tottenham Constituency – Biography of Messer

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Messer

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Messer was born in 1886, and by trade is a french polisher. He is a member of the Middlesex County Council, of which he was chairman in 1947-48; chairman of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and of the Central Health Services Council; and also chairman of the Ministry of Labour Advisory Committee on handicapped children. Entering Parliament in 1929 as M.P. for South Tottenham, he was defeated in 1931, but regained the constituency in 1935.


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