Hjalmar Branting
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Hjalmar Branting , 1860-1925, Swedish premier. A leader of the Social Democratic party, he was finance minister in 1917. As premier (1920, 1921-23, 1924-25) he was responsible for social reforms and for welfare legislation. Branting supported the League of Nations and shared the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Christian Louis Lange.
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