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Winston Churchill:

• Son of Randolph Churchill, a conservative politician, and Jennie Jerrome, daughter of Leonard Jerome, a New York businessman
• Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Great Britain
• November 30, 1874

Died:

• January 24, 1965
• London, England

• Married Clementine Ogilvy Spencer

Major Events:

• In 1895 he joined the Fourth Hussars and fought in India and Sudan
• Left the Army in 1899 and worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post
• Captured in South Africa but escaped to London
• Elected as Conservative MP for Oldham in 1900
• Joined the Liberal Party in 1904
• Became Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1906
• Appointed President of the Board of Trade in 1908
• Became Home Secretary in 1910 where he began a campaign for prison reform
• Became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911 and began modernizing Britain's naval forces
• Established the Royal Naval Air Service in 1912
• In 1915 he joined the British Army and commanded troops on the Western Front
• Served as Minister of War and Air from 1919 to 1920
• Served as Colonial Secretary from 1921 to 1922
• In 1922, he returned to the Conservative Party
• Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1925 where he took Britain back to the gold standard against great opposition
• Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1940
• May 10, 1940, by appointment of George VI, he became Prime Minister
• In 1945, Churchill lost his position to Clement Attlee
• In March 1946, he delivered his famous Iron Curtain Speech in Fulton, Missouri
• In August 1946, he suffered the first of several strokes
• In 1951, he was elected Prime Minister
• In 1955, in failing health, he retired from politics

Writings:

• The Story of Malakand Field Force (1898)
• The River War (1899)
• London to Ladysmith (1900)
• Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909)
• History of the English Speaking Peoples (1931)
• The Second World War (1952)