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Churchill, Winston

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born Nov. 30, 1874 to Lord Randolph Churchill and his wife, American Jennie Jerome Churchill.

Churchill graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1895, and saw action in Cuba, India, and Egypt.

He left the military after four years’ service, and ran for Parliament, but lost. He was working as a journalist in South Africa when he was captured and held as a prisoner of war after a train he was riding on was attacked. Churchill escaped, was hailed a hero, and was elected as a conservative member to the House of Commons in parliament in 1900.

Less than four years later, he crossed the aisle to join the liberal party, and became a Cabinet Minister in 1908. A few years later, he re-joined the conservative party, and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, or head of the Treasury.

When World War II broke out, Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, the senior civilian advisor on Naval affairs. In this position, he proved to be a man who could handle war, while the current Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proved he could not. Chamberlain resigned in the spring of 1940, and Winston Churchill became leader of a coalition government.

Churchill spent a lot of effort trying to get help from President Franklin Roosevelt and the United States during 1940-41. The result was the Lend-Lease program, which supplied Allied nations with war materiel. After the United States entered the war, Churchill continued to push for a Europe-first war.

Churchill was good with words; speaking of the Royal Air Force, he said, “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” In describing the defense of Great Britain, he said, “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” (Quotes from winstonchurchill.org)

Churchill was not re-elected in 1945, even after helping to win the war. In 1946, speaking in Missouri, Churchill declared that an iron curtain had fallen over Europe, and only the close alliance of Western Europe and the United States could prevent the spread of Communism.

He remained a member of parliament until 1963. Churchill died Jan. 24, 1965. He is buried near his family at St. Martin’s Church near Blenheim Palace.

To find other items that the Marshall Foundation has on Winston Churchill, search “Winston Churchill” in the library catalog: https://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/results/

Digitized items in the George C. Marshall archives:

3-028 Memorandum, December 23, 1941
3-170 To Winston S. Churchill, April 28, 1942
3-616 Radio for Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill Memorandum for General Deane
4-294 To Winston S. Churchill, March 15, 1944
4-346 To Winston S. Churchill, April 13, 1944
4-361 To Winston S. Churchill, April 18, 1944
4-427 To Winston S. Churchill, June 28, 1944
4-570 To Winston S. Churchill, November 7, 1944
5-081 To Winston Churchill, April 3, 1945
5-120 To Winston S. Churchill, May 9, 1945
5-178 To Winston S. Churchill, July 31, 1945
5-206 To Winston S. Churchill, August 15, 1945
5-296 To Winston S. Churchill, December 13, 1945
6-116 To Winston S. Churchill, October 13, 1947
Blood, sweat, and tears, by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, with a preface and notes by Randolph S. Churchill, M.P
Chasing Churchill : the travels of Winston Churchill by his granddaughter / Celia Sandys
Churchill : visionary, statesman, historian / John Lukacs
Churchill & his generals / Raymond Callahan
Churchill & Roosevelt : the complete correspondence / edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball
Churchill and America / Martin Gilbert
Churchill and Hitler : in victory and defeat / John Strawson
Churchill and the Great Republic / preface by Mary Churchill Soames ; foreword by James H. Billington ; essays by Martin Gilbert, Allen Packwood, and Duan van Ee
Churchill, his life in photographs, edited by Randolph S. Churchill and Helmut Gernsheim
Eisenhower and Churchill Visit Normandy
GCM00219 Churchill, Dill, Stimson and Marshall at Fort Jackson
GCM00224 Marshall and Churchill in Salisbury
GCM00225 Marshall and Churchill standing in Salisbury
GCM03018 Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour
GCM03043A Lady Randolph Churchill
GCM04798 President Truman and Mary Churchill
GCM04802 Scenes of Winston Churchill and Harry S. Truman outside of Churchill’s Berlin area residence
GCM04803 Scenes of Winston Churchill and Harry S. Truman outside of Churchill’s Berlin area residence
GCM06103 Marshall, Churchill and Alanbrooke at Teheran
GCM06828 FDR with Churchill at Atlantic Conference
Into battle: speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill … compiled by Randolph S. Churchill ..
October 29, 1956 – Stilwell and China; relations with MacArthur, Churchill, the French, and Army Air Forces
Roosevelt and Churchill End Quebec Talk
Roosevelt and Churchill Meet in North Africa
Secret session speeches, by the Right Hon Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Charles Eade
Tape 19 – Churchill’s Balkan Plans; Marshall Plan; State Dept. reorganization; MacArthur and Pacific Strategy; Lend Lease.
The Churchill war papers / [compiled by] Martin Gilbert
The Churchill-Eisenhower correspondence, 1953-1955 / edited by Peter G. Boyle
The end of the beginning war speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill; compiled by Charles Eade, with five half-tone plates
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
U.S. Reveals Armed Might for Churchill
Winston Churchill : a biography / by René Kraus
Winston Churchill : the flawed genius of World War II / Christopher Catherwood
Winston Churchill / Ike videorecording / A Susskind Company Production for WNET/New York
Winston Churchill on America and Britain: a selection of his thoughts on Anglo-American relations. Foreword by Lady Churchill. Pref. by W. Averell Harriman. Collected and edited with an introd. by Kay Halle
Winston Churchill, his wit and wisdom : selections from his works and speeches / with an introduction by Jack House
Winston Churchill, prime minister a selection from speeches made by Winston Churchill during the four years that Britain has been at war
Winston Churchill, the Yankee Marlborough
Winston Churchill: an intimate portrait [by] Violet Bonham Carter
Winston S. Churchill / [by] Randolph S. Churchill
Xerox 1482-003A To Stimson From Churchill

Collection Formats:

War Department Chiefs and Executives, October 19,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretary, General Staff, September 15,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretariat, General Staff, March 1,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Statistics Branch War Department General Staff organization chart
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Secretariat, War Department General Staff, June 7,
Call Number: GCM 7890 Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection, George C. Marshall Photographs

Photographs


Handshake after award from Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs


Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs

Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall


Newspaper clipping of Pershing attending Brown-Marshall Wedding, October 12,
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Notice of Marshall-Brown wedding


Invitation list to wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall, 1930
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Documents

Inivtation list to the wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall


Marshall Day at Virginia Military Institute, May 15,
Author: Virginia Military Institute
Collection: George C. Marshall Collection

Documents

Marshall Day Virginia Military Institute


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