Clement Richard Attlee was born on January 3, 1883, in London.
He was educated at Haileybury and University College, Oxford.
Attlee was a lecturer in social science at the London School of Economics.
In 1922, Clement first entered Parliament.
Attlee served as Prime Minister from 1945-1951.
It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.
His administration presided over the successful transition from a wartime economy to peacetime, tackling problems of demobilisation, shortages of foreign currency, and adverse deficits in trade balances and government expenditure.
Another change he brought about in domestic politics was the establishment of the National Health Service and post-war Welfare State.
Attlee led the party in opposition until December 1955, when he retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.
He attended Churchill's funeral in January 1965 - elderly and frail by then, he had to remain seated in the freezing cold as the coffin was carried, having tired himself out by standing at the rehearsal the previous day.
He lived to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967. Clement Attlee died of pneumonia on 8 October 1967.
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