title: Churchill, Winston
abstract: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 11, 1874, the son of Lord Randolf Churchill, and the grandson of the Duke of Marlborough. In the period before World War I, Churchill sponsored progressive legislation and served as undersecretary for the colonies. As first lord of the admiralty during World War I, his promotion of the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 risked jeopardizing his reputation. When the Soviet Union and the United States entered the war in 1941 on Britain's sid