Profession:British Prime Minister

Nationality:

Biography: British Conservative who was Prime Minister three times and who dominated British government between the two world wars.

Baldwin retired in 1937 and was succeeded byNeville Chamberlain. At that time, he was regarded as a popular and successful prime minister.

He was later vilified for presiding over high unemployment during the great depression of the 1930s and for the appeasement ofAdolf Hitler.

Born:August 3,1867
Birthplace: Bewdley, England, United Kingdom
Star Sign:Leo

Died:December 14,1947 (aged 80)

• 1923-01-19 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin and US Secretary of the TreasuryAndrew Mellon agree to reschedule repayment of Britain's $4.5 billion war debt over 62 years
• 1923-05-24 Stanley Baldwin succeeds AndrewBonar Law as British Prime Minister
• 1924-01-16 British Government of Stanley Baldwin resigns
• 1924-01-23 After Stanley Baldwin's resignation,Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain's first Labour Government, climaxing 24 years of struggle by the Labour Party
• 1924-10-29 Labour minority government loses British parliamentary election to Conservatives led by Stanley Baldwin
• 1924-11-04 Stanley Baldwin becomes Britain's Prime Minister for a second time after a landslide victory overRamsay MacDonald's Labour Party
• 1924-11-21 British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR
• 1925-03-12 British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
• 1934-11-28Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power

• 1892-09-12 61st UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (25) weds British writer and maternity health activist Lucy Ridsdale (23) in Rottingdean, England

• "True to our traditions, we have avoided all extremes. We have steered clear of fascism, communism, dictatorship, and we have shown the world that democratic government, constitutional methods and ordered liberty are not inconsistent with progress and prosperity." -Communism,Extremism,Fascism,Democracy

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  Volunteers Help Defeat General Strike

  Britain's first and only General Strike occurred in May 1926 and was quickly defeated by volunteers and a cunning plan by Winston Churchill.
  May 3, 1926
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  King Abdicates for Love of Wallis Simpson

  On this day King Edward VIII gave up his throne so that he could marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson. It was the first time a British king had abdicated.
  December 10, 1936

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• Harold Wilson
• Henry Addington
• Robert Walpole
• William Pitt the Elder