Hjalmar Branting

Hjalmar Branting
Prime Minister of Sweden
In office 18 October 1924 – 24 January 1925
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Ernst Trygger
Succeeded by	Rickard Sandler
In office 13 October 1921 – 19 April 1923
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Oscar von Sydow
Succeeded by	Ernst Trygger
In office 10 March 1920 – 27 October 1920
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Nils Edén
Succeeded by	Louis de Geer
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 13 October 1921 – 19 April 1923
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Herman Wrangel
Succeeded by	Carl Hederstierna
Minister of Finance
In office 19 October 1917 – 5 January 1918
Prime Minister	Nils Edén
Preceded by	Conrad Carleson
Succeeded by	Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson
Personal details
Born	Karl Hjalmar Branting (1860-11-23)23 November 1860 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	24 February 1925(1925-02-24) (aged 64) Stockholm, Sweden
Political party	Social Democrats
Spouse	Anna Branting (née Jäderin)
Children	Georg Branting Sonja Branting-Westerståhl
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Karl Hjalmar Branting (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjǎlmar ˈbrânːtɪŋ] ^ⓘ; 23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) from 1907 until his death in 1925, and three times Prime Minister of Sweden. When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden. When taking office for a second term after the general election of 1921, he became the first democratic socialist head of government in Western Europe elected under universal suffrage. An early supporter of modern social democracy and democratic socialism, he led the SAP through a transformation from a radical socialist movement to Sweden's dominant party; the Social Democrats have been Sweden's largest party in every election since 1914, and formed government for 44 continuous years from 1932 to 1976.

In 1921, Branting shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Norwegian secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Christian Lous Lange.