Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967) was educated at Haileybury and University College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1905. Two years later, in 1907, he was appointed manager of Haileybury House Boys' Club in Stepney and in 1913 he became a lecturer in social administration at the London School of Economics. During the war he served with distinction in the army. Attlee had joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and in 1919 he became Mayor of Stepney. He was M.P. for Limehouse from 1922 to 1950, and for West Walthamstow from 1950 to 1955. Attlee held various minor posts in the early Labour governments. From 1931 until 1935 he was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Commons. He was Chairman of the Opposition, 1935-40. During the wartime government led by Churchill, Attlee was successively Lord Privy Seal, 1940-1942, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1942-1943, Lord President of the Council, 1943-1945, and Deputy Prime Minister, 1942-1945. Attlee was Prime Minister of the 1945-51 Labour Governments, and Minister of Defence, 1945-1946.