Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman. He was born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace and died in 1965. He was Britains Prime Minister during the Second World War. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst before entering the British army in 1895 where he served in Cuba, India and the Sudan. He was a war correspondent during the Boer War and entered politics in 1900 as a Conservative MP for Oldham, before defecting to the Liberal Party in 1905. After a series of ministerial posts he became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911 where he remained for the earlier part of the Great War. During the post-war period his principal position was that of Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post he held from 1924 to 1929. He was excluded from the national governments of 1931 to 1939 on account of his opposition to the policy of appeasing Germany and Italy, but was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty on the outbreak of the Second World War. After the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in May 1940, he became Prime Minister of an all-party coalition. As the supreme director of the war effort, and the main architect of the alliance with Russia and America, he led the nation to victory over Germany and Japan, but was defeated at the polls in 1945 and did not again become Prime Minister until 1951, resigning the position in 1955. Research Winston Churchill
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