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Also Known As Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Born November 30, 1874 • Blenheim Palace • England
Died January 24, 1965 (aged 90) • London • England
Title / Office prime minister (1951-1955), United Kingdom • prime minister (1940-1945), United Kingdom • House of Commons (1924-1965), United Kingdom • Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924-1929), United Kingdom • House of Commons (1901-1922), United Kingdom
Political Affiliation Conservative Party • Liberal Party
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1953)
Notable Works “Lord Randolph Churchill” • “Marlborough: His Life and Times” • “The River War” • “The Story of the Malakand Field Force” • “The World Crisis”
Notable Family Members mother Jennie Jerome Churchill • son Randolph Churchill
Subjects Of Study World War II
Role In Battle of the Atlantic • Cairo Conference • Gallipoli Campaign • Quebec Conference • World War I • World War II • Pacific War • Potsdam Declaration

Did You Know?

  • Churchill was once hit by a car on New York's Fifth Avenue when he glanced the wrong direction before crossing.
  • Churchill proposed to and was rejected by three women before Clementine Hozier.
  • While fighting in Sudan, Churchill studied old parliamentary debates and invented contributions of his own.

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