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Second premiership of Ramsay MacDonald

The Right Honourable
Ramsay MacDonald
FRS
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
5 June 1929 – 7 June 1935
Monarch George V
Preceded by Stanley Baldwin
Succeeded by Stanley Baldwin
In office
22 January 1924 – 4 November 1924
Monarch George V
Preceded by Stanley Baldwin
Succeeded by Stanley Baldwin
Leader of the Opposition
In office
4 November 1924 – 5 June 1929
Monarch George V
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by Stanley Baldwin
Succeeded by Stanley Baldwin
In office
21 November 1922 – 22 January 1924
Monarch George V
Prime Minister Bonar Law
Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by H. H. Asquith
Succeeded by Stanley Baldwin
Leader of the Labour Party
In office
22 November 1922 – 1 September 1931
Deputy John Robert Clynes
Preceded by John Robert Clynes
Succeeded by Arthur Henderson
In office
6 February 1911 – 5 August 1914
Chief Whip George Henry Roberts
Arthur Henderson
Preceded by George Nicoll Barnes
Succeeded by Arthur Henderson
Lord President of the Council
In office
7 June 1935 – 28 May 1937
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by Stanley Baldwin
Succeeded by The Viscount Halifax
Leader of the House of Commons
In office
5 June 1929 – 7 June 1935
Preceded by Stanley Baldwin
Succeeded by Stanley Baldwin
In office
22 January 1924 – 3 November 1924
Preceded by Stanley Baldwin
Succeeded by Stanley Baldwin
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
22 January 1924 – 3 November 1924
Preceded by The Marquess Curzon
Succeeded by Austen Chamberlain
Member of Parliament
for the Combined Scottish Universities
In office
31 January 1936 – 9 November 1937
Preceded by Noel Skelton
Succeeded by Sir John Anderson
Member of Parliament
for Seaham
In office
30 May 1929 – 14 November 1935
Preceded by Sidney Webb
Succeeded by Emanuel Shinwell
Member of Parliament
for Aberavon
In office
15 November 1922 – 30 May 1929
Preceded by John Edwards
Succeeded by William Cove
Member of Parliament
for Leicester
In office
8 February 1906 – 14 December 1918
Serving with Henry Broadhurst, Franklin Thomasson, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Sir Gordon Hewart
Preceded by John Rolleston
Henry Broadhurst
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born James MacDonald Ramsay
(1866-10-12)12 October 1866
Lossiemouth, Morayshire, Scotland, UK
Died 9 November 1937(1937-11-09) (aged 71)
Atlantic Ocean, (on holiday aboard the ocean liner Reina del Pacifico)
Resting place Spynie Cemetery, Morayshire
Nationality British
Political party Labour (until 1931)
National Labour (from 1931)
Spouse(s) Margaret Gladstone
(m. 1896; her death 1911)
Children 6
Parents John MacDonald
Anne Ramsay
Alma mater Birkbeck, University of London
Profession Journalist
Signature Cursive signature in ink

James Ramsay MacDonald, FRS ( James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour governments in 1924, 1929–1931 and, having been expelled from the party he had helped to found, a National Government from 1931 to 1935.

Historians credit MacDonald, along with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, as one of the three principal founders of the Labour Party. His speeches, pamphlets and books made him an important theoretician, but he played an even more important role as Leader of the Labour Party. He entered Parliament in 1906 and was the Chairman of the Labour MPs from 1911 to 1914. He was widely denounced for his opposition to the First World War, and he lost his seat in 1918. The antiwar mood of the 1920s led to his rehabilitation in the 1920s and he returned to Parliament in 1922, as his party replaced the Liberal Party as the second-largest party.

The first Labour government—formed with Liberal support—in 1924 lasted only nine months but demonstrated that the Labour Party was sufficiently competent to run a government. MacDonald was widely applauded for his moderation and his support of the League of Nations, but Labour was defeated at the 1924 General Election, partly as a result of the fallout from the Campbell case.


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