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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
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— Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States and Medal of Honor recipient (6 January 1919), to family servant James E. Amos "Goodbye, until Heaven!" [108] ("Adeus, até ao Céu!") — Saint Francisco Marto, Portuguese Marian mysticist (4 April 1919), to his cousin Lúcia "I must get back to my work." [109]
In addition to the above, the following vice presidents were SAR compatriots and later became President of the United States: Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Joseph Biden. Link to National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution website Presidents page -
The Churchill family controls many of the documents and has authorized an 8-volume official biography. It was started by his son Randolph Churchill (1911–1968) and finished after his death by Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), a scholar at Oxford.
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[59] [60] Churchill admired the United States, writing to his brother that it was "a very great country" and telling his mother "what an extraordinary people the Americans are!" [61] With the Hussars, Churchill arrived in Bombay, British India, in October 1896. [62] [63] They were soon transferred to Bangalore, where he shared a bungalow with ...
In the late 1890s, Churchill's writings first came to be confused with those of his American contemporary Winston Churchill, a best-selling novelist.He wrote to his American counterpart about the confusion their names were causing among their readers, offering to sign his own works "Winston Spencer Churchill", adding the first half of his double-barrelled surname, Spencer-Churchill, which he ...