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Leverton Harris
British politician (1864–1926) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frederick Leverton Harris (17 December 1864 – 14 November 1926)[1] was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for three periods between 1900 and 1918.
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His role in Parliament was largely insignificant until World War I, when he used his knowledge of shipping to play a crucial role in the United Kingdom's economic warfare against the German Empire, and joined the government in 1916 in a newly created post with specific responsibility for the blockade of Germany. As the war drew to a close, his political career looked set to flourish, but was destroyed by scandal.