Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II and author, was born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Winston Churchill, born on November 30, 1874, was a British leader who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was most remembered for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, but he was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of Britain's longest-serving politicians. With the exception of two years between 1922 and 1924, he served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 until 1964, representing a total of five seats. He was a Conservative Party member for the majority of his career, despite being an economic liberal and imperialist.
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