What is Jan Smuts?
{{nosources|date=August 2018}} {{Infobox Prime Minister |honorific-prefix = [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[The Right Honourable]] | name = Jan Christiaan Smuts |honorific-suffix = [[Order of Merit|OM]], [[Companion of Honour|CH]], [[Efficiency Decoration|ED]], [[King's Counsel|KC]], [[Royal Society|FRS]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] | image = JanSmutsFM.png | imagesize = 255px | order = 4th | office = Prime Minister of South Africa | order2 = 2nd | office2 = Prime Minister of South Africa | term_start = 5 September 1939 | term_end = 4 June 1948 | monarch = [[George VI]] | governor-general = [[Sir Patrick Duncan]]<br/>[[Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet]] (Acting)<br/>[[Gideon Brand van Zyl]] | predecessor = [[James Barry Munnik Hertzog]] | successor = [[Daniel François Malan]] | term_start2 = 3 September 1919 | term_end2 = 30 June 1924 | monarch2 = [[George V]] | governor-general2 = [[Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton|The Earl of Buxton]]<br/>[[Prince Arthur of Connaught|The Prince Arthur of Connaught]]<br/>[[Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone|The Earl of Athlone]] | predecessor2 = [[Louis Botha]] | successor2 = [[James Barry Munnik Hertzog]] | birth_date ={{Birth date|1870|5|24|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Riebeek West|Bovenplaats]], [[Cape Colony]] | death_date ={{Death date and age|1950|9|11|1870|5|24|df=yes}} | death_place =Doornkloof, [[Irene, Gauteng|Irene]], [[Transvaal Province]], [[Union of South Africa]] | party =[[South African Party]]<br>[[United Party (South Africa)|United Party]] | spouse =Issie Krige | signature = J Smuts sign.png }} '''Jan Christiaan Smuts''', [[Order of Merit|OM]], [[Companion of Honour|CH]], [[Efficiency Decoration|ED]], [[King's Counsel|KC]], [[Royal Society|FRS]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950), was a [[South Africa]]n soldier and Prime Minister, from 1919 to 1924 and again from 1939 to 1948. ==Biography== ===Early life=== Jan Smuts was born into a wealthy [[Afrikaner p