English author and politician Jeffrey Archer is born
Jeffrey Archer bestselling novelist and politician is born in Somerset England.Archer attended Oxford and later studied in the U.S.In 1969 he was elected to the House of Commons the youngest member of Parliament elected that year.But in 1974 financial disaster struck when an investment went bad.
Penniless he resigned from Parliament and wrote a novel Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less which became an instant bestseller enabling him to repay his debts.Archer was later appointed deputy chairman of Britains Conservative Party but he was forced to resign in disgrace again after a tabloid accused him of patronizing a prostitute in 1986.Archer sued the tabloid and won 800000 in damages.Meanwhile he continued writing bestsellers including Shall We Tell the President (1976) First Among Equals (1984) As the Crow Flies (1991) and The Fourth Estate (1996).
In 1995 the queen made Archer a peer endowing him with the title of Lord.In 1999 Lord Archer ran for mayor of London but was brought down by another scandal when he admitted that he had attempted an illegal cover-up of the prostitute incident 13 years earlier.
