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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Ex-British Prime Minister Callaghan dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Callaghan succeeded Prime Minister Harold Wilson in April 1976, in the dying days of Britain's post-World War II consensus politics, and governed until May 1979, when strikes, financial crises and party divisions cost him the election against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party. |
 | | Callaghan, who entered Parliament as a Labour Party lawmaker in 1945, was the only British politician to hold, at different times, the four posts of prime minister, Treasury chief, foreign secretary and home secretary. |
 | | Leonard James Callaghan was born March 27, 1912, in the southern port city of Portsmouth to a Catholic father and Baptist mother. |
| www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/26/ex_british_prime_minister_callaghan_dies (876 words) |
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