Great Offices of State have come close to achieving this distinction: Herbert Henry Asquith and Winston Churchill both served as Chancellor, Prime Minister and Home Secretary while Harold Macmillan and John Major served as Prime Minister, Chancellor and Foreign Secretary. Rab Butler and Sir John Simon served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary. Two of the Great Offices of State have often been held simultaneously by one person, most recently by Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in 1924; Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, is the only person to have held three of the Great Offices simultaneously, serving
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia is a 1903 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Reverend Joseph Gordon, a preacher in New York City, clashes with church elders because of his socialist views. Despite being a socialist, his best friend, Mark Overman, is a millionnaire Wall Street banker. Meanwhile, Gordon grows apart from his wife, Ruth, who disapproves of his politics. After he starts a relationship with Kate Ransom, a wealthy female parishioner, he divorces his wife. Kate Ransom donates a million dollars for him to start a new church and