Tony Blair

Tony Blair became the youngest British prime minister of the 20th century when he took office in 1997. He studied law at Oxford and then practiced law until 1983, when he was elected as member of Parliament from Sedgefield. Blair was a member of the Labour Party, which at the time was dominated politically by the Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher. He became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, and three years later was named prime minister, replacing John Major, when Labour won a Parliamentary majority. Blair was re-elected in Parliamentary elections in 2001 and 2005 and continued until June of 2007.