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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967), was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
5 days ago · Clement Attlee, British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.
Clement Attlee was leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955, and served as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.
Clement Attlee, 1950 © Attlee was the British Labour Party leader for 20 years, and presided over the 1945 - 1951 Labour government. This was the most significant reforming administration of...
Mar 11, 2014 · Clement Attlee bore little resemblance to the contemporary politician. He had no time for the things that are now the stock-in-trade of all serious aspirants for high office: image and public...
Mar 29, 2017 · Here was a man born in the governing class who devoted his life to the service of the poor, who was carried off the battlefield three times in the First World War, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Churchill as Britain’s darkest moment, and then triumphed over him at the general election of 1945.
May 6, 2021 · Labour’s postwar leader Clement Attlee presided over the most consequential raft of legislation in modern British history. Charlotte Lydia Riley provides a brief history of his life and legacy Published: May 6, 2021 at 2:48 PM
Clement Earl Attlee (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Britain’s first post-war Prime Minister (1945-51), winning a landslide for Labour, helping to usher in a new era of British Politics.
Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee of Walthamstow, (born Jan. 3, 1883, Putney, London, Eng.—died Oct. 8, 1967, Westminster, London), British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51).
Clement Attlee served as Prime Minister between 1945 to 1951. Read more about the life and achievements of Clement Attlee in our past Prime Ministers section.
