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List of honorary citizens of the United States; Num. Name Image Date Nationality Note Ref. 1 Sir Winston Churchill: April 9, 1963 United Kingdom: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, notably during World War II. [8] [15] 2 Raoul Wallenberg: October 5, 1981 [a] Sweden: Swedish diplomat who rescued Jews in Hungary from the Holocaust. [16] 3, 4 ...
Churchill's identification document as an honorary citizen of the United States. On 9 April 1963, United States President John F. Kennedy, acting under authorization granted by an Act of Congress, proclaimed Churchill the first honorary citizen of the United States.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955.
Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January 1965, aged 90. [1] [2] [3] His was the first state funeral in the United Kingdom for a non-member of the royal family since Edward Carson's in 1935.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Antonia Keaney, a social historian at Blenheim, said the former prime minister's connection to the ...
Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the July 1945 ... proclaimed him an Honorary Citizen of the United ... the first for a non-royal person since W. E ...
It eventually passed by a 396–2 vote and was quickly signed into law by Reagan, making Wallenberg the second person in history (Winston Churchill being the first) to be made an honorary American citizen by an act of Congress. [88]
If the first Kentucky Derby spectators suddenly found themselves at the front gates of Churchill Downs today, they wouldn't recognize anything. So much has changed in 149 years. The first “Derby ...