Ernest Bevin
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Economics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Labor, Unions, Work, Employment, Cold War
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Bevin founded, and for eighteen years led, the Transport and General Workers Union, influenced Labour Party policy during the 1930’s, served as minister of labour and national service in World War II, and, in the postwar Labour government, was foreign secretary and one of the architects of the Cold War.
Early Life
Ernest Bevin was born on March 7, 1881, in the village of Winsford, in Somerset County, the last and illegitimate child of a mother who already had seven children by a husband who had disappeared in 1877. Bevin was orphaned...
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