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21 de may. de 2002 · Mon 20 May 2002 21.39 EDT. In December 1967, Sir John Gorton, who has died aged 90, found himself prime minister of Australia almost by accident, after his predecessor Harold Holt drowned in the ...
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.
John Gorton attended Headfort College in Killara, and then boarded at Shore, the Sydney Church of England Grammar School. In 1927, Kathleen and Ruth moved to London. Gorton, aged 16, spent some time on his father’s orchard ‘Mystic Park’, Lake Kangaroo, near Kerang, in Victoria. He finished school as a boarder at Geelong Grammar ...
John Grey Gorton (Melbourne , 9 september 1911 - Sydney (New South Wales), 19 mei 2002) was een Australisch politicus. Hij was de 19e premier van Australië. Levensloop. Gorton studeerde geschiedenis, politicologie en economie aan de Universiteit van Oxford in Engeland.
John Gorton (1911-2002) became Prime Minister in unusual circumstances when he was elected as Liberal Party leader after Harold Holt’s death. His departure was similarly unconventional, declaring himself ‘out of office after a tied party vote of confidence in his leadership’. 1 He remains the only senator to have become Prime Minister.
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.
Sir John Grey Gorton was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously been a senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the parliament of Australia to assume the office of prime minister.
