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Alec Douglas-Home

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Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, born July 2, 1903, and died October 9, 1995, served as Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964. Previously the 14th Earl of Home, he disclaimed his hereditary peerage under the Peerage Act 1963 so that he could sit in the House of Commons and become prime minister, succeeding Harold Macmillan. His premiership, one of the briefest of the twentieth century, ended when he lost the October 1964 general election to Labour's Harold Wilson.

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Birth Year
1903 2
Birth Date
1903-07-02 2
Death Date
1995-10-09 2
Death Year
1995 2
Classification
Political Role
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1
Gender
Male 2
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Years in Office
1 2
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Role
Prime Minister 2
How Leadership Ended
Election Loss 2
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Nationality

United Kingdom

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Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
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1. Alec Douglas-Home - Wikipedia (Wikipedia)
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2. Alec Douglas-Home (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section, birth
    2 July 1903
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1903-07-02
  • Lead section, death
    9 October 1995
  • Infobox, death_date
    1995-10-09
  • Entity description, gender reference sentence
    Previously the 14th Earl of Home, he disclaimed his hereditary peerage under the Peerage Act 1963 so that he could sit in the House of Commons and become prime minister, succeeding Harold Macmillan.
  • Lead section, years in office
    Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (; 2 July 1903-9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
  • Lead section
    Following a narrow defeat in the general election of 1964, Douglas-Home resigned the leadership of his party, after having instituted a new and less secretive method of electing the party leader.
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