biography
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Chamberlain, Joseph
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1914)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in London, UK. He entered the family business at 16, became Mayor of Birmingham (1873–5), and a Liberal MP (1876). He became President of the Board of Trade (1880), but resigned over Gladstone's Home Rule Bill (1886), which split the Liberal Party. From 1889 he was leader of the Liberal Unionists, and in the coalition government of 1895 took office as secretary for the Colonies. In 1903 he resigned office to be free to advocate his ideas on tariff reform, and in 1906 withdrew from public life after a stroke. |
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