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How old was Winston Churchill when they became Prime Minister of the UK?
Winston Churchill was 65 years old when they became Prime Minister of the UK, on 10 May 1940.
Winston Churchill died 24 January 1965 at age 90 — 25 years after this milestone.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 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. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
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