Clement Attlee
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Major The Right Honourable The Earl Attlee KG OM CH PC FRS |
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| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
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In office 26 July 1945 – 26 October 1951 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Deputy | Herbert Morrison |
| Preceded by | Winston Churchill |
| Succeeded by | Winston Churchill |
| Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
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In office 19 February 1942 – 23 May 1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Morrison |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 26 October 1951 – 25 November 1955 |
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| Monarch |
George VI Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister |
Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Winston Churchill |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Morrison |
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In office 25 October 1935 – 11 May 1940 |
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| Monarch |
George V Edward VIII George VI |
| Prime Minister |
Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | George Lansbury |
| Succeeded by | Hastings Lees-Smith |
| Leader of the Labour Party | |
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In office 25 October 1935 – 25 November 1955 |
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| Deputy |
Arthur Greenwood Herbert Morrison |
| Preceded by | George Lansbury |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Deputy Leader of the Labour Party | |
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In office 25 October 1932 – 25 October 1935 |
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| Leader | George Lansbury |
| Preceded by | John Robert Clynes |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Greenwood |
| Lord President of the Council | |
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In office 24 September 1943 – 23 May 1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Sir John Anderson |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Woolton |
| Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs | |
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In office 15 February 1942 – 24 September 1943 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Cranborne |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Cranborne |
| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 11 May 1940 – 15 February 1942 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Sir Kingsley Wood |
| Succeeded by | Sir Stafford Cripps |
| Postmaster General | |
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In office 13 March 1931 – 25 August 1931 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | Hastings Lees-Smith |
| Succeeded by | William Ormsby-Gore |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 23 May 1930 – 13 March 1931 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | Sir Oswald Mosley |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Ponsonby |
| Under-Secretary of State for War | |
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In office 23 January 1924 – 4 November 1924 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | Wilfrid Ashley |
| Succeeded by | Richard Onslow |
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Member of Parliament for Walthamstow West |
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In office 23 February 1950 – 26 December 1955 |
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| Preceded by | Valentine McEntee |
| Succeeded by | Edward Redhead |
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Member of Parliament for Limehouse |
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In office 15 November 1922 – 23 February 1950 |
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| Preceded by | Sir William Pearce |
| Succeeded by | Constituency Abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Clement Richard Attlee 3 January 1883 Putney, Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Died | 8 October 1967 (aged 84) Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Violet Millar (m. 1922; d. 1964) |
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| Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
| Profession | Lawyer, Soldier |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1914–1919 |
| Rank | Major |
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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government. He went on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in summer 1945 and to a narrow victory in 1950. He became the first Labour Prime Minister ever to serve a full five-year term, as well as the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament and remains the longest-ever serving Leader of the Labour Party.
First elected to Parliament in 1922 from Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929-31. One of only a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat in the landslide defeat of 1931, he became the party's Deputy Leader. In 1935 he became the Leader of the Party. At first advocating pacificism and appeasement, he later reversed his position and by 1938 became a strong critic of Neville Chamberlain's attempts to appease Adolf Hitler. He took Labour into the Churchill war ministry in 1940. Initially serving as Lord Privy Seal, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in 1942. Attlee and Churchill worked together very smoothly, with Attlee working backstage to handle much of the detail and organisational work in Parliament, as Churchill took centre stage with his attention on diplomacy, military policy, and broader issues. With victory in Europe in May 1945, the coalition government was dissolved. Attlee led Labour to win a huge majority in the ensuing 1945 general election two months later.
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