Harold Wilson

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James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – 23 May 1995), was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976, the most recent person to serve in the position for two non-consecutive terms. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition twice — from 1963 to 1964 and from 1970 to 1974 — and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983. Wilson is the only Labour leader to have formed a government after a general election four separate times. Born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, to a politically active lower middle-class family, Wilson studied philosophy, politics and economics at Jesus College, Oxford. He was later an Economic History lecturer at New College, Oxford, and a research fellow at University College, Oxford. Elected to Parliament in 1945, Wilson was appointed to the Attlee government as a Parliamentary secretary; he became Secretary for Overseas Trade in...

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