James Callaghan
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![Callaghan meets with US President Jimmy Carter, 1978.](/Images/godic/202501/02/lossy-page1-220px-Jimmy_Carter_and_James_Callaghan,_Prime_Minister_of_Great_Britain.,_03-23-1978_-_NARA_-_178479.tif1034.jpg")
![James Callaghan, Jimmy Carter and West-German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt during the 1977 economic summit (at 10 Downing Street)](/Images/godic/202501/02/lossy-page1-220px-James_Callaghan,_Jimmy_Carter_and_Helmut_Schmidt_during_the_1977_economic_summit._-_NARA_-_174692.tif1034.jpg")
![At the Guadelupe Conference, 1979left to right: Helmut Schmidt, Jimmy Carter, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, James Callaghan.](/Images/godic/202501/02/Carter_guadeloupe1034.gif")
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG,PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), often known as Jim Callaghan, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is to date the only politician in history to have served in all four of the "Great Offices of State", having been Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970, and Foreign Secretary from 1974, until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1976.