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Joseph Chamberlain

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Chamberlain 1836-1914, British statesman. After a successful business career, he entered local politics and won distinction as a reforming mayor of Birmingham (1873-76). Entering Parliament as a Liberal in 1876, Chamberlain advocated radical social reform and served under William Gladstone as president of the Board of Trade (1880-85). In 1886, however, he broke with Gladstone, leading the defection from the Liberal party of the Liberal Unionists (those Liberals who opposed Home Rule for Ireland). In 1887-88 he negotiated a treaty with the United States to settle the fisheries dispute... Read more
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain The English politician Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) influenced the fate of the Liberal party...in London on July 8, 1836, of a middle-class family, Joseph Chamberlain moved to Birmingham when he was 18 to join his uncle... Read more
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain The English statesman Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) held a number of high offices, most...Birmingham, England, on Oct. 16, 1863. His father, Joseph Chamberlain, was the famous reforming mayor of Birmingham... Read more

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