biography
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| (1859–1940)
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| biography:
| British politician, born near Lowestoft, Suffolk, E England, UK. Active as a radical since boyhood, he became a convinced socialist in 1890, and a Labour MP in 1910, resigning in 1912 to stand in support of women's suffrage. He was defeated and not re-elected until 1922. He founded and edited the Daily Herald (1912–22), and became commissioner of works (1929), and leader of the Labour Party (1931–5). |
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