Margaret Thatcher - Thatcher Was Promoted To The Frontbench
Time: Oct, 1961
Place: London, England
Details: In October 1961 she was promoted to the frontbench as Parliamentary Undersecretary at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance by Harold Macmillan. Thatcher was the youngest woman in history to receive such a post, and among the first MPs elected in 1959 to be promoted.
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