In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

Meadowcroft himself eventually joined the Liberal Democrats in 2007.

For the 1983 and 1987 General Elections, the SDP joined the Liberal Party in the SDP-Liberal Alliance.

By the late 19th century, the traditional business supporters of the UK Liberal Party had joined the Conservatives, making them the party of business and commerce.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

After World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig ( 1946 – 1949 ) and joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party ( LDPD ) in 1946.

For the 1947 elections, anti-Yoshida forces left the Liberal Party and joined forces with the Progressive Party to establish the new Democratic Party ( Minshuto ).

Also in 1974, the Northern Territory members of the party joined with its Liberal party members to form the independent Country Liberal Party.

Ex-Legionnaires, idealistic reformers, and former Lopiztas joined in July 1887 to form the Centro Democrático ( Democratic Center ), a precursor of the Liberal party, to demand free elections, an end to land sales, civilian control over the military, and clean government.

Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals, but he eventually joined the Liberal Party of Canada when he entered federal politics in the 1960s.

Having joined the Liberal Party only in 1965, he was still considered an outsider as well as too radical and outspoken.

Constituent parties of the CDR joined the Democratic Party ( PD ), the National Liberal Party ( PNL ) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( UDMR ) to form a centrist coalition government, holding 60 % of the seats in Parliament.

After serving as a bank officer and as a Sergeant in the Second World War, Askin joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the seat of Collaroy at the 1950 election.

However, his interest in politics arose again when he assisted his former commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robson, in retaining his seat of Vaucluse at the 1947 state election for the newly-formed Liberal Party of Australia, which Askin then joined.

More specifically, FF was a centre right " catch all " party and later joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, AN was a moderate-conservative party and eventually joined the European People's Party through The People of Freedom, and Lega Nord was supportive of a " Europe of Regions ".

In 1859, Lord Palmerston formed a new mixed government with Radicals included, and Gladstone again joined the government as Chancellor of the Exchequer ( with most of the other remaining Peelites ) to become part of the new Liberal Party.

Gruffydd had voiced doubts about Lewis ' ideas since 1933, and by 1943 he had joined the Liberal party.

In 1955, Lumumba became regional head of the Cercles of Stanleyville and joined the Liberal Party of Belgium, where he worked on editing and distributing party literature.

He came from a political family: his father James Herbert Wilson ( December 1882 – 1971 ) was a works chemist who had been active in the Liberal Party and then joined the Labour Party.

Originally an active Liberal, she joined the Liberal Unionist party in 1886 in opposition to Irish Home Rule.

Gollancz's politics started as those of the Liberal Party and Guild Socialism, by 1931 he joined the Labour Party.

He joined the Fatherland Party during World War I.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

Twenty-eight Labour MPs eventually joined the new party, along with one member of the Conservative Party, Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler.

He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and became active in London local politics.

When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.

During World War I, Eastman was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party, soon joined by Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald, and others.

He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923.

Subsequently, he studied at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

In his 1938 essay " Why I joined the Independent Labour Party ," published in the ILP-affiliated New Leader, Orwell wrote:

In the 1998 federal election, despite a slight fall in their percentage of the vote ( 6. 7 %), the Greens retained 47 seats and joined the federal government for the first time in ' Red-Green ' coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

He studied agronomy in college, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925.

Himmler joined the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in August 1923 ; his Party number was 14, 303.

Various organisations, including the Independent Labour Party, joined to make the British Labour Party in 1906, with Keir Hardie as its first chairman.

They joined to form the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in 1934, with the goal of creating an independent Scotland, but it enjoyed little electoral success in the Westminster system.

In 1952, Genscher fled to West Germany, where he joined the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

Holt was drawn to politics in the early 1930s and joined the Prahran branch of the United Australia Party ( UAP ) in 1933.

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

Cuba joined the Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1948.

Eisenhower was a golf enthusiast later in life, and joined the Augusta National Golf Club in 1948.

Chapman, Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor later joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show.

Finland joined the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1948.

The town was not a field of battle during 1948 Arab-Israeli War before the first truce on 11 June, although some of the villagers had joined the loosely organized peasant military and paramilitary forces, and troops from the Arab Liberation Army had entered Nazareth.

In 1948 Lee joined Perry Como and Jo Stafford as a rotating host of the NBC Radio musical program Chesterfield Supper Club.

DuMont and NBC would be joined by CBS and ABC in 1948.

Schmidt joined the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in 1946, and from 1947 to 1948 was leader of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, the student organisation of the SPD.

During the war, Alexander Dubček joined the Communist Party of Slovakia ( KSS ), which had been created after the formation of the Slovak state and in 1948 was transformed into the Slovak branch of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSČ ).

In Italy, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party broke away from the Italian Socialist Party in 1947, when this latter joined the Soviet-funded Italian Communist Party to prepare the decisive general election of 1948.

In 1948, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and became a German citizen again, formally adopting the pseudonym, Willy Brandt, as his legal name.

Silver City joined the 1948 – 49 Berlin Airlift with a single Bristol Freighter in September 1948.

His brother, David Rockefeller, also joined the museum's board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency when Nelson took up position as Governor of New York in 1958.

In March 1948 Belgium signed the Treaty of Brussels, and then joined NATO in 1948.

The club joined the NBA in 1948.

In 1948, the three schools joined with Louisville, Morehead State, and Evansville to form the Ohio Valley Conference.

In 1945, the Germans left and the island of Patmos remained autonomous until 1948, when it, together with the rest of the Dodecanese Islands, joined the independent Greece.

In 1948 the Church of the Brethren joined the World Council of Churches as a charter member and was a forming member of the National Council of Churches in 1950.

Likewise, the concept of ' Pataphysics –" the science of imaginary solutions "– first presented in Jarry's Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien ( Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician ) was inspirational to many later Absurdists, some of whom joined the Collège de ' pataphysique, founded in honor of Jarry in 1948 ( Ionesco, Arrabal, and Vian were given the title Transcendent Satrape of the Collège de ' pataphysique ).

Nippur was excavated for 19 seasons between 1948 and 1990 by a team from the Oriental Institute of Chicago, joined at times by the

After playing with several outfits in New York, he joined Mezz Mezzrow ’ s group on a tour of Europe in 1948 that lasted eight weeks.

Since that time four additional counties have joined in the support of Copiah-Lincoln: Franklin County in 1948 ; Lawrence County in 1965 ; Jefferson County in 1967 ; and Adams County in 1971.