biography
pronunciation:
[palmuh]
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| lived:
| (1927–86)
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| biography:
| Swedish politician and prime minister (1969–76, 1982–6), born in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied in the USA at Kenyon College, then took up law at Stockholm University. He joined the Social Democratic Labour Party (SAP) in 1949, entered the government in 1963 and held several ministerial posts before assuming the leadership of the Party and becoming prime minister. Although losing his parliamentary majority in 1971, he successfully carried out major constitutional reforms, but was defeated in 1976 over taxation proposals to fund the welfare system. He was returned to power, heading a minority government in 1982, and was re-elected in 1985, but was shot and killed while walking home with his wife after a visit to a cinema. The motive and identity of the killer remain a mystery. |
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