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James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

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James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

British politician (1871-1940)

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About James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC (NI), DL, was a leading Irish unionist and a key architect of Northern Ireland as a devolved region within the United Kingdom. During the Home Rule Crisis of 1912–14, he defied the British government in preparing an armed resistance in Ulster to an all-Ireland parliament. He accepted partition as a final settlement, securing the opt out of six Ulster counties from the dominion statehood accorded Ireland under the terms of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty. From then until his death in 1940, he led the Ulster Unionist Party and served Northern Ireland as its first Prime Minister. He publicly characterised his administration as a "Protestant" counterpart to the "Catholic state" nationalists had established in the south. Craig was created a baronet in 1918 and raised to the Peerage in 1927.

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Occupation: politician
Position held: Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Secretary to the Admiralty, member of the House of Lords, Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland
Citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: January 8, 1871
Died: November 24, 1940

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