Harold Macmillan

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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Macmillan was seriously injured as a captain of the Grenadier Guards during the First World War and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After the war he joined his family's book-publishing business, then entered the Commons at the 1924 general election representing Stockton-on-Tees. Losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931 as a supporter of economic planning. He opposed the appeasement of Nazi Germany practised by the government and entered the Cabinet soon after the Second World War broke out as a protégé of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In the 1950s Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in 1957...

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