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Ernest Bevin

1881 - 1951

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Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government. He succeeded in maximising the British labour supply for both the armed services and domestic industrial production with a minimum of strikes and disruption. His most important role came as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government, 1945–1951. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Bevin is the 10,329th most popular politician (down from 9,043rd in 2019), the 2,298th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,804th in 2019) and the 360th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernest Bevin ranks 10,329 out of 19,576. Before him are Otto Rühle, Artuk Bey, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, George Sabra, and Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After him are Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Mustafa Shokay, Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Tyti, Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, and Eudoxia Streshneva.

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Among people born in 1881, Ernest Bevin ranks 106. Before him are Ernst Fast, Adolf Hühnlein, Pablo Gargallo, André Salmon, Vera Weizmann, and Rauf Orbay. After him are Jacob Israël de Haan, Heinrich Barkhausen, William Clothier, Grigory Kotovsky, María Blanchard, and Yakov Protazanov. Among people deceased in 1951, Ernest Bevin ranks 80. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Fritz Busch, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Robert Broom, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, and Simon Kimbangu. After him are Bernhard Kellermann, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Karl Koller, Erich Neumann, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, and Lippo Hertzka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ernest Bevin ranks 2,298 out of 8,785. Before him are Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Michael Sheen (1969), William Sealy Gosset (1876), Peter Hammill (1948), Miranda Richardson (1958), and Howard Jones (1955). After him are Tom Courtenay (1937), John Stanley (1712), Mike Rutherford (1950), Leonard Woolf (1880), Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), and John Morley (1838).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ernest Bevin ranks 360. Before him are Lord William Bentinck (1774), Joe Davis (1901), Erskine Childers (1870), Norman Lamont (1942), Mary McAleese (1951), and Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874). After him are Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), John Morley (1838), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), David Blunkett (1947), William Fox (1812), and Ken Tyrrell (1924).

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