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John Gorton, the only Australian prime minister to come from the Senate, was judged variously to be ‘a national disaster’, who was ‘utterly unfitted for the post’; a man ‘ahead of his time’; and the leader who ‘could have been our greatest prime minister’.
John Gorton 10 January 1968 to 10 March 1971. John Gorton was the only senator ever to become Prime Minister. Traditionally, prime ministers come from the lower house – the House of Representatives. Shortly after becoming Prime Minister, Gorton stood for – and won – a seat in the House of Representatives.
24 de jul. de 1993 · Interior: 18 December 1963 to 4 March 1964. Works: 18 December 1963 to 28 February 1967. Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research: 18 December 1963 to 14 December 1966. Education and Science: 14 December 1966 to 28 February 1968. Defence: 10 March to 13 August 1971.
19 de may. de 2002 · John Gorton: was at school with film star Errol Flynn at Shore (1924-26) and painter Russell Drysdale at Geelong Grammar (1927-30) being lanky and casual, was nicknamed ‘Droop’ at Geelong Grammar. is the only prime minister sworn in while still a senator. for three weeks in February 1968, Gorton was prime minister but had no seat in parliament.
19 de may. de 2002 · John Gorton was 29, married, and had completed an MA at Oxford when he joined the RAAF in late 1940. He trained as a pilot and served in Britain before being posted to Singapore with No. 232 Squadron RAF. On 21 January 1942, flying a Hawker Hurricane which had only been unloaded a week earlier, he was shot down by a Japanese fighter.
The Prime Minister and the Bomb: John Gorton, W.C. Wentworth and the Quest for an Atomic Australia LACHLAN CLOHESY AND PHILLIP DEERY Victoria University, Melbourne The efforts of the Liberal government led by John Gorton to acquire a locally built nuclear deterrent stretch back into the 1950s when Robert Menzies preferred to rely on the American or British nuclear umbrella for protection.
JOHN GORTON. Member of the Privy Council (1968), Order of the Companion of Honour (1971), Order of St Michael and St George - Knight Grand Cross (1977), Companion of the Order of Australia (1988) Liberal. 10 January 1968 — 10 March 1971 3 years, 60 days. John Gorton became Australia's 19th prime minister when the Liberal Party elected him ...
