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Also Known As James Henry Thomas
Born October 3, 1874 • Newport • Wales
Died January 21, 1949 (aged 74) • London • England
Title / Office House of Commons (1910-1936), United Kingdom
Political Affiliation Labour Party
Role In General Strike of 1926
Bevin, 1945
Ernest Bevin
British labor leader and statesman
Bondfield, Margaret
Margaret Bondfield
British labor leader
Victor Feather, Baron Feather of the City of Bradford
British labor leader
Walter McLennan Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine
British labor leader
Sir Vincent Tewson
British labor leader
Sidney Webb
British economist
Beatrice Webb
British economist
Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
prime minister of United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
prime minister of United Kingdom
Burns, John Elliot
John Elliot Burns
British labor leader
Arthur Cook, 1926
Arthur James Cook
British labor leader
George Woodcock
English labor leader
Hardie, drawing by Cosmo Rowe; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
J. Keir Hardie
British labor leader
Tillett, c. 1880
Benjamin Tillett
British labor leader
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
prime minister of United Kingdom
Arch, Joseph
Joseph Arch
British labor leader
Alan Fisher
British labor leader
Mann, Tom
Tom Mann
British labor leader
Sir Randal Cremer.
Sir Randal Cremer
British labor leader
Tony Blair
Tony Blair
prime minister of United Kingdom