# Harold Wilson

> The only Labour leader to win four general elections, yet he left office diminished - remembered less for what he built than for devaluing the pound, sending troops into Northern Ireland, and an abrupt resignation in 1976 that fueled decades of speculation about why he really walked away.

*Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976 (1916-1995)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1916-03-11
- **Died:** 1995-05-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Huddersfield in 1916 to a politically active lower middle-class family, Wilson studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, then lectured there before entering Parliament in 1945. He rose fast in the Attlee government - Parliamentary secretary, Secretary for Overseas Trade, then President of the Board of Trade at Cabinet level - before Labour's 1955 defeat sent him to the Shadow Cabinet. When Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, Wilson won the leadership election and took Labour to a narrow win in 1964, then a bigger majority in 1966. His first government abolished capital punishment and theatre censorship, partially decriminalised male homosexuality, relaxed divorce laws, outlawed racial discrimination, and liberalised abortion - but chronic balance of payments trouble forced him to devalue the pound in 1967, and in 1969 he sent British troops into Northern Ireland, accelerating the Troubles.

## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

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