1 8 9 0 – 1 9 6 9 Ho Chi Minh was the adopted name of Nguyen Tat Thanh – a North Vietnamese communist…
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was born in London in 1906. He was educated at Winchester public school and at Oxford and later lectured on political…
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley was born in Armagh (Northern Ireland), the son of a Baptist minister, and was educated at the Model School and Technical…
Ian Smith was prime minister of Rhodesia for 15 turbulent years. During that period, his government illegally declared independence from British rule and fought a…
Born in 1925, Idi Amin became an Army officer in Uganda, trained and promoted by the British. In 1971, he led a coup against Ugandan…
1 9 1 7 – 1 9 8 4 Indian politician and prime minister of India between 1966 and 1977 and again from 1980 to…
The term “Irangate” was used to describe the 1987 US political scandal involving senior members of the Reagan administration (the name echoes the Nixon administration’s Watergate). Congressional hearings in 1986…
Jacques René Chirac came from an affluent Parisian background, and was trained at France’s elite Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He became a policy adviser to Prime…
John Jeremy Thorpe was born on 29 April 1929, the youngest child of a leading lawyer and former Conservative MP, Sir John Henry Thorpe. His…
Jesse Jackson was born in 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina and started working in his grandfather’s woodyard when he was six years old. He attended…
Leonard James Callaghan entered the civil service at the age of 17 as a tax officer. By 1936 he had become a full-time trade-union official.…
James Earl Carter, Jr. was born in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James…
1 9 1 1 – 2 0 0 5 Johannes (“Joh”) Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian right-wing politician, leader of the Queensland National Party (QNP) and…
1 9 1 7 – 1 9 6 3 Born in 1917, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the second son of a millionaire Democrat power-broker, Joseph…
John Major was born in March 1943, the son of Tom and Gwen Major. After leaving school Major started on a banking career. Whilst working…
1 9 0 8 – 1 9 5 7 Born at Grand Chute, Wisconsin, Joseph Raymond McCarthy graduated from Marquette University in 1935 and practised…
In Australia in the 1970s, Shanghai-born Junie Morosi became the first woman to take the position of Principal Private Secretary to the Federal Treasurer, Dr…
This Communist movement in Cambodia (Kampuchea) was formed in the 1960s and controlled the country between 1974 and 1978. The Khmer Rouge was responsible for…
1 9 1 2 – 1 9 9 4 North Korean communist politician and marshal. He became prime minister in 1948 and led North Korea…
1 9 1 2 – 1 9 8 8 Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby was born in Ambala, Punjab, British India, on 1 January 1912.…