Hjalmar Branting

Prime Minister of Sweden

23 November 1860 Stockholm, Sweden

24 February 1925(1925-02-24) (64) Stockholm, Sweden

18 October 1924 – 24 January 1925

Swedish politician Karl Hjalmar Branting (Swedish pronunciation:  ( listen ) ; 23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (1907–1925) and Prime Minister during three separate periods (1920, 1921–1923 and 1924–1925). 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 socialist politician in Europe to do so following elections with universal suffrage. In 1921, Branting shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Norwegian secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Christian Lous Lange.