biography
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Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, Baron
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| lived:
| (1883–1964)
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| biography:
| Politician and businessman, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied at Manchester University, and was a teacher before working for the Lewis department store in Manchester, where he revolutionized the merchandizing side, and became chairman in 1935. He was made a life peer in 1939. During World War 2, he made his name at the ministry of food, where from 1940 he had the responsibility of seeing that the entire nation was well-nourished. In 1946 he became chairman of the Conservative Party, and is credited with much of the success in rebuilding the Party's reorganization which led it to victory in 1951. |
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