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James Ramsay MacDonald

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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Ramsay MacDonald

Born: 12 October 1866, Drainie, Moray

Died: 9 November 1937

Member of Privy Council - 22 January 1924

son of John MacDonald

son of Anne Ramsay

husband of Margaret Ethel Gladstone

father of Malcolm John Macdonald

Education

Drainie Parish School

Appointments

Leader of HM Opposition	21 November 1922	22 January 1924
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	22 January 1924	3 November 1924
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	22 January 1924	4 November 1924
Leader of HM Opposition	4 November 1924	8 June 1929
Leader of the House of Commons	5 June 1929	7 June 1935
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	8 June 1929	7 June 1935
Lord President of the Council	7 June 1935	28 May 1937

Elections fought

16 July 1895	Southampton	Independent Labour Party	867	7.67
2 October 1900	Leicester	Labour Party	4,164	20.03
15 January 1906	Leicester	Labour Party	14,685	65.70
17 January 1910	Leicester	Labour Party	14,337	61.64
5 December 1910	Leicester	Labour Party	12,998	61.41
14 December 1918	Leicester West	Labour Party	6,347	23.58
2 March 1921	Woolwich East	Labour Party	13,041	48.72
15 November 1922	Aberavon	Labour Party	14,318	46.55
6 December 1923	Aberavon	Labour Party	17,439	55.60
22 January 1924 Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald appointed Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.
29 October 1924	Aberavon	Labour Party	17,724	53.15
30 May 1929	Seaham	Labour Party	35,615	72.49
27 October 1931	Seaham	National Labour	28,978	55.01
14 November 1935	Seaham	National Labour	17,882	31.78
31 January 1936	Combined Scottish Universities	National Labour	16,393	56.48
9 November 1937 Death of Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald.