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| rdfs:comment | - Brigadier John Dennis Profumo, C.B.E.
* Born: 30 January 1915
* Died: 9 March 2006
- John Dennis Profumo, CBE (30 January 1915 - 9 March 2006) was a British politician, serving as an MP beginning in 1940. He is best remembered for his affair with Christine Keeler while he served as Secretary of State for War in the Conservative government of PM Harold Macmillan. The affair, which lasted from 1961 until 1963, when affair came to light. While the philandering was bad enough, it was made worse by the fact that Keeler was also involved in a relationship with the senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy, adding national security concerns. While the Conservatives had been in a period of declining popularity, the Profumo Affair didn't help. Profumo himself resigned in 1963. He spent the remainder of his life engaged in charity work.
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| With | - David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
- Hugh Molson 1953–1957
- Joseph Gurney Braithwaite 1952–1953
- George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne
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| Title | - Secretary of State for War
- Member of Parliament for Kettering
- Baby of the House
- Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon
- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
- Secretary of State for War
- Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport
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| Years | - 1940
- 1944
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- 1960
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| abstract | - Brigadier John Dennis Profumo, C.B.E.
* Born: 30 January 1915
* Died: 9 March 2006
- John Dennis Profumo, CBE (30 January 1915 - 9 March 2006) was a British politician, serving as an MP beginning in 1940. He is best remembered for his affair with Christine Keeler while he served as Secretary of State for War in the Conservative government of PM Harold Macmillan. The affair, which lasted from 1961 until 1963, when affair came to light. While the philandering was bad enough, it was made worse by the fact that Keeler was also involved in a relationship with the senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy, adding national security concerns. While the Conservatives had been in a period of declining popularity, the Profumo Affair didn't help. Profumo himself resigned in 1963. He spent the remainder of his life engaged in charity work.
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