1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Hughes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. D. Hughes was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Balliol. He is organizing secretary of the Fabian Society, and a former member of Lambeth Borough Council. He served as a lieutenant with the Royal Artillery during the war. In the 1945 election he captured West Wolverhampton from the Conservatives. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Education and then to the Under-Secretary of State for War.

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