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James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), British Prime Minister, 1926. MacDonald was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose from humble origins to become the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924. His second period as Prime Minister was during the crisis of the Great Depression when he formed a National Government in which a majority of MPs were from the Conservatives, and as a result he was expelled from the Labour Party. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).