March 17, 2011
EXECUTIVE OFFICE MAJOR INITIATIVES* RESULT* BOOKS PUBLISHED
(Note: Ministers must be Members of Parliament – MPs)
None (1900-1905)
(Member of Parliament)
Elected 1900 as a Conservative; in 1904 switched to Liberal Party Success
Success
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)
The River War (1899); Savrola (1899)
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900)
Ian Hamilton’s March (1900)
Mr. Brodick’s Army (1903)
Colonial Under-Secretary 1905-1908 Transvaal constitution Success Lord Randolph Churchill (1906)
For Free Trade (1906)
President, Board of Trade
1908-1910
(out of Parliament 24 Apr 1908 – May 09)
Labor dispute mediation
Arbitration courts
Labor Exchanges
Minimum wage
Success
Mixed
Success
Success
My African Journey (1908)
Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909)
Home Secretary
1910-1911
Strike intervention
Home rule for Ireland
Prison reform
Insurance Act
Labor and Shop Acts
Mixed
Inconclusive
Mixed
Success
Success
The People’s Rights (1910)
First Lord of the Admiralty
1911-1915
Naval staff reorganization
Fleet power conversion (coal to oil)
Naval Air Corps
Ship development project
Tank development project
Dardanelles
Success
Success

Success
Success
Success
Failure

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
28 May 1915 – 11 Nov 1915
Only serious duty is to appoint County magistrates; a sinecure.
None (1915-1916)
(Member of Parliament)
Battalion commander, France Success
Minister of Munitions
1917-1919
Streamlining of ministry
Output increases
Success
Success
Secretary of State for Air & War 1919-1921 Russian intervention
Demobilization
Failure
Success
Colonial Secretary
1921-1922
Home Rule for Ireland
Middle East reorganization
Mixed
Success
Out of Parliament
16 Nov 1922 – 29 Oct 1924
1924 Returns to Conservative Party The World Crisis (vol. 1 & 2/5) (1923)
Chancellor of the Exchequer 
1924-1929
Gold standard restoration
Income tax reduction
Sweeping tax reform
Coal strike mediation
General Strike 1926
Failure
Success
Failure
Failure
Mixed
The World Crisis ( vol. 3 & 4/5) (1927-29)
None (1929-1939)
(Member of Parliament)
“Wilderness Years”
Opposed India Bill
Campaign for rearmament
Defended Edward VIII
Failure
Failure
Mixed
The World Crisis ( vol. 5/5) (1931)
My Early Life: A Roving commission(1930)
India (1931)
Thoughts and Adventures/Amid These Storms (1932)
Marlborough: His Life and Times(1933-38)
Great Contemporaries (1937)
Arms and the Covenant/While England Slept (1938)
First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940 Norwegian offensive
Attacking German Fleet
National Broadcasts
Failure
Success
Success
Step by Step 1936-1939 (1939)
Prime Minister and
Minister of Defence

1940-1945
Mobilized English Language
WW2 – vs. Germany/Italy
WW2 – vs. Japan
Opposed Soviet hegemony
Success
Success
Success
Failure
Into Battle/Blood Sweat and Tears(1941)
The Unrelenting Struggle (1942)
The End of the Beginning (1943)
Onward to Victory (1944)
Prime Minister 1945 Caretaker Government The Dawn of Liberation (1945)
None
Leader of the Opposition

(1945-1951
Tory domestic policy
Warned of Soviet threat
Supported Labour’s Foreign Policy
Success
Success

Mixed

Secret Session Speeches (1946)
The Second World War 6 vol. (1948-53)
Sinews of Peace (1948)
Europe Unite (1950)
Prime Minister 1951-1955 Cold War mediation Failure In the Balance (1951); Stemming the Tide (1953)
None 1955-1964
(Member of Parliament)
Intercedes with Eisenhower over Suez Failure History of the English-Speaking Peoples 4 vol. (1956-58); The Unwritten Alliance (1961)
Winston S. Churchill: The Complete Speeches 8 vol. (1974)
The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill 4 vol. (1975)

*Major initiatives and evaluations compiled by Steven F Hayward, from his book Churchill on Leadership (Rocklin, CA: Prima, 1998). p.24, and Richard M. Langworth, Editor, The Churchill Centre. May be reprinted for educational purposes, but only with attribution to Steven F. Hayward and The Churchill Centre.

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