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    Sir John Grey Gorton GCMG AC CH (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th prime minister...
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    Gorton is an area of Manchester in Greater Manchester, North West England. It is to the southeast of Manchester city centre. The population at the 2011...
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    by John McEwen, the leader of the Country Party. The new prime minister was John Gorton. McMahon initially continued on as Treasurer in the Gorton government...
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  • John Gorton (1911–2002) was an Australian politician who served as the 19th Prime Minister of Australia. John Gorton may also refer to: John Gorton (cricketer)...
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    Minister for the Army. After Holt's disappearance and replacement by John Gorton, Fraser became Minister for Education and Science (1968–1969) and then...
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    The John Gorton Building, also referred to as the Gorton Building and formerly the Administrative Building, is a heritage listed government office located...
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    office. He was succeeded by Country Party leader John McEwen on an interim basis and then by John Gorton. His death was commemorated in a number of ways...
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    leadership spills (John Gorton, Bob Hawke, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull) and three died in office (Joseph Lyons, John Curtin and...
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    The Gorton government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister John Gorton. It was made up of members of a Liberal-Country...
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    Gorton, Lady Gorton (née Brown; 23 June 1915 – 2 October 1983) was an American-born Australian academic who was best known as the first wife of John Gorton...
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    John Gorton (died 1835) was an English writer, known as a compiler of reference works. His works include: A translation of Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique...
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  • Australian public servant and entrepreneur, who was the private secretary to John Gorton, the Prime Minister of Australia in the late 1960s. Gotto was born in...
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    minister and only the third from the Country Party. McEwen ceded power to John Gorton after 23 days in office, and in recognition of his service was appointed...
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  • was causing increasing public protest. The Liberals chose John Gorton to replace Holt. Gorton, a former World War II Royal Australian Air Force pilot,...
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    Thomas Slade Gorton III (January 8, 1928 – August 19, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Washington...
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  • Christianity portal John Gorton (30 January 1821 – 2 September 1900) was an Anglican Archdeacon in India in the mid 19th century. Gorton was born at Tickhill...
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    Lyons in 1939 and John Curtin in 1945. Holt was initially replaced in a caretaker capacity by John McEwen, and then by John Gorton following the 1968...
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    during the Gorton government (1968–1971). He worked closely with Prime Minister John Gorton, although his initial appointment in place of John Bunting was...
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    vacated by Sir Robert Menzies. Peacock was appointed to cabinet in 1969 by John Gorton and later served under William McMahon and Malcolm Fraser. He held a...
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    John Winston Howard OM AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007...
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  • john-gorton/before-office [bare URL] Ian Hancock (2002). John Gorton: He Did It His Way. Hodder. p. 1. ISBN 0733614396. Gorton was told by...
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    The Liberal Party only had one leader of the party from the Senate, John Gorton, for a brief period in January 1968 before he resigned from the Senate...
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    Burke, and is named in honour Sir John Gorton, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. Gorton had served in the Senate from 1949...
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  • political-consultant Jeff Gorton, American ice-hockey executive Jeffrey Gorton, American murderer John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister and Senator John Gorton (writer)...
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  • Harold Edward Holt Full name: John McEwen Black Jack Full name: John Grey Gorton Jolly John Full name: William McMahon Billy the Leak Billy Liar Billy Big...
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  • Retrieved 2 November 2021. "John Curtain". Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved 2 November 2021. "John Gorton". Museum of Australian...
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    led by the country's 19th Prime Minister, John Gorton. The Second Gorton ministry succeeded the First Gorton ministry, which dissolved on 12 November 1969...
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    only case where a member of the Senate was appointed prime minister was John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as the...
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    Minister, John Gorton. The First Gorton ministry succeeded the McEwen ministry, which dissolved on 10 January 1968 following the election of Gorton as Liberal...
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    Minister, 1966–1967 (English descent) John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister, 1967–1968 (partial English descent) John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister, 1968–1971 (English...
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