Clement Attlee
The Right Honourable
Clement Attlee
The Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
27 July 1945 – 26 October 1951
Monarch
George VI
Deputy
Herbert Morrison
Preceded by
Winston Churchill
Succeeded by Winston Churchill
Deputy Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom
In office
19 February 1942 – 23 May 1945
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Preceded by
Office Created
Succeeded by
Herbert Morrison
Leader of the Opposition
In office
25 October 1935 – 22 May 1940
Monarch
George VI
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Preceded by
George Lansbury
Succeeded by
Hastings Lees-Smith
In office
23 May 1945 – 26 July 1945
Monarch
George VI
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Preceded by
Arthur Greenwood
Succeeded by Winston Churchill
In office
26 October 1951 – November 1955
Monarch
George VI
Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Preceded by
Winston Churchill
Succeeded by
Hugh Gaitskell
Born
3 January 1883(1883-01-03)
Putney, London, England
Died
8 October 1967 (aged 84)
London, England
Nationality
U.K. Citizen
Political party
Labour
Spouse
Violet Attlee
Alma mater
University College, Oxford,
United Kingdom
Profession
Lawyer
Religion
Raised Anglican, later
became atheist / agnostic[1].
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee,
KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8
October 1967) was a British politician who
served as Prime Minister of the United King-
dom from 1945 to 1951 and leader of the La-
bour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was De-
puty Prime Minister under Winston Churchill
in the wartime coalition government, before
leading the Labour Party to a landslide elec-
tion victory over Churchill’s Conservative
Party at the 1945 general election. He was
the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full
Parliamentary term and the first to have a
majority in Parliament.
The government he led put in place the
post-war consensus, based upon the assump-
tion that full employment would be main-
tained by Keynesian policies, and that a
greatly