"Chancellor of the Exchequer" Rab Butler Signed White Book Photo COA for Sale

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"Chancellor of the Exchequer" Rab Butler Signed White Book Photo COA:
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Up for sale the "Chancellor of the Exchequer" Rab Butler Signed White Book Photo. This item iscertified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate ofAuthenticity.
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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butlerof Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL(9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler andfamiliarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative politician. The Timesobituary called him "the creator of the modern educational system, thekey-figure in the revival of post-war Conservatism, arguably the mostsuccessful chancellor since the war and unquestionably a Home Secretary ofreforming zeal."[1] He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-warconsensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the mainpoints of domestic policy until the 1970s, sometimes known as"Butskellism" from an elision of his name with that of his Labourcounterpart Hugh Gaitskell. Born into a family of academicsand Indian administrators, Butler enjoyed a brilliant academic career beforeentering Parliament in 1929. As a juniorminister, he helped to pass the Government of India Act, 1935. He stronglysupported the appeasement of Nazi Germany in 1938–39. Enteringthe Cabinet in 1941, he served as Education Minister(1941–45, overseeing the Education Act 1944). When the Conservativesreturned to power in 1951 he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–55), HomeSecretary (1957–62), Deputy Prime Minister(1962–63) and Foreign Secretary(1963–64). Butler had an exceptionally long ministerial career and was one ofonly two British politicians (the other being John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon)to have served in three of the four Great Offices of State but never to havebeen Prime Minister, for whichhe was passed over in 1957 and 1963. At the time, the Conservative Leadershipwas decided by a process of private consultation rather than by a formal vote.After retiring from politics in 1965, Butler was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.