Henderson, Arthur

Born in Glasgow in 1863 in a textile worker family. Father died when he was 10 years old. He worked as a caster. He joined the Methodist Church, became a Methodist preacher. Since 1892 - an employee of the foundry union. In 1888, Henderson married Eleanor Watson. A daughter and three sons were born in the family, the eldest of them was killed during the First World War.

In 1900 he was one of the founders of the labor representation commission, which became the basis for the working (Labor) party created in 1903. In 1903 he was elected to the Parliament of Great Britain and was re-elected there from different polling stations until his death in 1935.

In 1911-1934, the secretary of the Labor Party.

During the First World War, in 1915-1917, Henderson was a member of the Governments of Asquith and Lloyd George as a minister without a briefcase, and advocated a "war to the end."

After the February Revolution of 1917 he came to Russia, negotiated with the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Council .

After the end of World War I supported the creation of the League of Nations. In 1924, the Secretary of the Interior in MacDonald's first Labor cabinet; in 1929-1931, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 2nd cabinet of MacDonald , who in 1929 restored diplomatic relations with the USSR, broken by Great Britain in 1927. In 1932-1933 he was chairman of the international conference on disarmament. Winner of the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize.

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