- Born
- Died
- Birth nameClement Richard Atlee
- Nickname
- Clem
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Clement Attlee was one of Britain's most significant political figures. He was the leader of Britain's Labour Party from 1935-1955 and Deputy Prime Minister of the UK during the wartime coalition against Nazi Germany (1940-45). He won a landslide victory in the 1945 general election, defeating Churchill, and while Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945-1951) he established the National Health Service and India gained Independence from the British empire.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseViolet Helen Millar(January 10, 1922 - June 7, 1964) (her death, 4 children)
- Strongly supported appeasement from 1935 to 1938, when he reversed his position and became a vocal critic of the Munich Agreement.
- His party received more votes than the Conservatives in the 1951 General Election, but lost seats due to the collapse of the Liberal vote.
- Used 13,000 troops to end the London dock strike in 1949.
- Pictured on one of a set of eight British commemorative postage stamps honoring Prime Ministers, issued 14 October 2014. Other prime ministers featured in the set were William Pitt the Younger, Charles Grey, Robert Peel, William Gladstone, Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, and Margaret Thatcher. Price of the Churchill, Attlee, Wilson, and Thatcher stamps on day of issue was 97p each.
- He believed Anthony Eden had been forced into taking a strong stand on the Suez Crisis by his backbenchers.
- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
- A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
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