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Ramsay MacDonald

1866 - 1937

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James Ramsay MacDonald (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. From 1931 to 1935, he headed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party and supported by only a few Labour members. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramsay MacDonald has received more than 2,563,078 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Ramsay MacDonald is the 2,760th most popular politician (down from 2,595th in 2019), the 589th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 596th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular British Politician.

Ramsay MacDonald is most famous for being the first Labour Prime Minister. He was elected to office in 1924 and was in office until 1929.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ramsay MacDonald ranks 2,760 out of 19,576Before him are King Xiaowen of Qin, Hayme Hatun, Jacques Santer, Urukagina, Georg Michaelis, and Yamato Takeru. After him are Emperor Qianshao of Han, Dương Văn Minh, Alpha Condé, Idriss Déby, Emperor Suzong of Tang, and Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Ramsay MacDonald ranks 21Before him are Charles Nicolle, Ferruccio Busoni, Jacinto Benavente, Beatrix Potter, Lev Shestov, and Anne Sullivan. After him are Nathan Söderblom, Emilio De Bono, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ambroise Vollard, Léon Bakst, and Butch Cassidy. Among people deceased in 1937, Ramsay MacDonald ranks 27Before him are Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Gaston Doumergue, Jean Harlow, Rudolf Otto, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, and Karol Szymanowski. After him are Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Emilio Mola, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, Keke Geladze, and Jagadish Chandra Bose.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ramsay MacDonald ranks 589 out of 8,785Before him are A. S. Neill (1883), Chris Slade (1946), Erasmus Darwin (1731), Tony Iommi (1948), Annie Lennox (1954), and Joan Collins (1933). After him are Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), David Attenborough (1926), Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631), William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Philippa of Lancaster (1360), and Eleanor Marx (1855).

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