MacDonald, James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)

British politician. Leader of the Labour Party and first Labour Prime Minister.

Elected as MP for Leicester, 1906. Leader of the Labour Party, 1911-1914 and from 1922. Became Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, January-November 1924 and was re-elected Prime Minister, 1929-1935; Lord President of the Council, 1935-1937.


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