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    The Conservative government of the United Kingdom that began in 1957 and ended in 1964 consisted of three ministries: the first Macmillan ministry, second...
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  • ministry, the British government under Sir Anthony Eden (1955–1957) Conservative government, 19571964, the British government under Harold Macmillan...
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    from the late 1950s such as under the four-successive leader Conservative government, 19571964. These set a social norm for a majority of out-of-town journeys...
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  • Ernest Marples (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    July 1978) was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General (1957–1959) and Minister of Transport (1959–1964). As Postmaster General...
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    classical liberal thought; libertarian conservatives are far more anti-statist and are much more hostile to government intervention in both social and economic...
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  • Peter Thorneycroft (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    1909 – 4 June 1994) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958. Born in Dunston, Staffordshire...
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    The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by incumbent Prime Minister Alec...
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    previously supported the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1960, Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying it was unconstitutional. Democrats successfully...
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    Harold Macmillan (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was...
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    party candidate has achieved an absolute majority. During the Conservative Government 1957-1964 "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011...
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    Duncan Sandys (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill...
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    disagreeing with Title II and Title VII. In the 1964 U.S. presidential election, Goldwater mobilized a large conservative constituency to win the Republican nomination...
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    Alec Douglas-Home (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He is notable for being the...
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    Rab Butler (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Act 1944. When the Conservatives returned to power in 1951, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–1955), Home Secretary (1957–1962), First Secretary...
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    Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Guilty: The Conservative Reply. A Vindication of Government Policy. "Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Hailsham, Q.C." London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957. OCLC Number:...
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  • John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Scotland from 1957 to 1962 within Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, having held a number of junior ministerial posts beforehand. In 1964, he was elevated...
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    Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Brooke of Cumnor, CH, PC (9 April 1903 – 29 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster...
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  • Digby Wingfield Digby (13 February 1910 – 22 March 1998) was a British Conservative politician. He was elected as member of parliament (MP) for West Dorset...
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  • the Conservatives and received numerous ministerial posts in the four National Governments, for that entire wing to fully unify with the Conservatives. These...
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  • name was changed to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government by the new Conservative government following the October 1951 general election. It was...
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    David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious...
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    had to persuade "the most conservative and respected profession in the country to accept and operate the Labour government's most intrinsically socialist...
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  • Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative politician. He served as Lord Chancellor from 1962 to 1964. Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The...
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    Christopher Soames (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    and Food from July 1960 to 1964. Home had promised to promote him to Foreign Secretary if the Conservatives won the 1964 general election, but they did...
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  • Maurice Macmillan (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Macmillan of Ovenden, PC (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984), was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament. He was the only son of Harold...
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    Iain Macleod (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in...
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    supported by the United Conservative Party. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections). 1958: Jorge Alessandri (won) 1964: Eduardo Frei Montalva...
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  • Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 19571964)
    Lord Fairfax of Cameron (14 May 1923 – 8 April 1964), was a Scottish nobleman, peer, and Conservative politician. Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax was born...
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  • Both were part of Sir John A. Macdonald's government and official Conservative and Liberal-Conservative candidates would not, generally,[clarification...
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