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	John Gorton - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9 1911 - May 19 2002), Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang, and educated at a prestigious private school and at Oxford University, where he completed an MA.
		Gorton proved to be a surprisingly poor media performer and public speaker, and was portrayed by the media as a foolish and incompetent administrator.
		Gorton called a Liberal Party meeting, and when a motion of confidence in his leadership was tied, he resigned, and McMahon was then elected leader and thus Prime Minister.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/John_Gorton (826 words)

	John Gorton
		John Grey Gorton (September 9, 1911 - May 19, 2002) was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 - 1971.
		A minor Prime Minister of Australia, John Gorton's reign is remembered chiefly for coming on the tail end of the Liberal-Country Coalition's unprecedented 23 years in power.
		Born in 1911, and educated at Oxford, Gorton enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, and achieved acclaim as a war hero who had survived two crashes, although a serious accident on a runway left his face shattered for life.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Gorton.html (509 words)

	John Gorton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gorton was born in Melbourne, the son of an orchardist, and was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, Geelong Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he completed an MA.
		Although Gorton had been a member of the Country Party before the war, in 1949 he was elected to the Senate for the Liberal Party.
		Gorton was an energetic and capable minister, and began to be considered leadership material once he moderated his early extremely right-wing views.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Gorton (1083 words)

	John Gorton - Wikipedia Mirror
		Gorton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang, and educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, Geelong Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he completed an MA.
		In the subsequent leadership struggle Gorton was championed by Army Minister Malcolm Fraser and Liberal Party Whip Dudley Irwin, and with their support he was able to defeat his main rival, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, to become Liberal leader and Prime Minister.
		Gorton was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1968, a Companion of Honour in 1971, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1977 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/John_Gorton (979 words)

	John Grey Gorton - RAAF Pilot & Australian Prime Minister
		Gorton, who hadn't tightened his harness correctly was slammed into the instrument panel, breaking his nose and causing facial injuries.
		After the war, Gorton became involved in politics where he served as a Senator for the state of Victoria between 1950 and 1968; the Minister for the Navy; as well as Minister for Works and Education.
		Gorton was elected Liberal Party leader on January 10, 1968 and officially sworn in as Prime Minister on March 1.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/veterans/gorton.html (464 words)

	Gentleman John fell on his sword - smh.com.au
		Gorton's watch was to be the most turbulent time to date in Australian politics, yet he left little to show he had passed this way.
		Gorton, compared with either of his predecessors, had about him a new, strident nationalism; it was almost as though he could sniff the coming explosion of Ockerism in the '70s.
		Gorton announced he would not nominate for his safe Victorian seat of Higgins but, outraged by the dismissal of the Whitlam government, advocated a vote for Labor and stood unsuccessfully as an independent for an ACT Senate seat.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/20/1021882026260.html (2050 words)

	John Gorton, Former Liberal Prime Minister, Dies, 90 [May 20, 2002]
		Gorton came to public prominence during the 'VIP Planes Affair' when he tabled travel records in the Senate and rescued the government from a lingering crisis.
		Gorton led his government to near-defeat in the 1969 election, securing a minority of the popular preferred vote, and was challenged in March 1971 by his Defence Minister, Malcolm Fraser, who accused him of having a "manic determination" to get his own way, and of being unfit to be prime minister.
		Gorton, exercising a casting vote to which he was not entitled, voted himself out of office.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/05/02-05-20a.shtml (435 words)

	Prime Minister - Sir John Grey Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gorton was a member of the State executive of the LCP, and was placed third on the joint ticket with the Country Party for the 1949 Senate election.
		Gorton proved to be an outstanding Minister for the Navy - he stopped the navy's post-war decline, modernised the fleet, prepared it for an expanded role in regional security, and improved the effectiveness of naval administration.
		John Gorton was a hardworking and 'hands on' minister who consulted "down the line", made up his own mind, was always forceful and did not respect protocol.
	www.gavmag.com /austpm/pm_gorton.htm (2564 words)

	AM Archive - Sir John Gorton dies
		Although Gorton was committed to the traditional conservative values of free enterprise and individual liberty, it was a brief spell working at his father's orchards near Kerang in northern Victoria during the early years of the depression that left an indelible mark.
		JOHN GREY GORTON: And there were about a third of the people that were able to work which weren't working then and they struck me as absolutely abominable that they should be kept out of work by a banker saying you can't do this any more.
		JOHN HOWARD: I have to confess that I didn’t agree with everything he said or did when he was Prime Minister and I would be a hypocrite if I pretended otherwise but we've each had a conversion towards each other as the years have gone by.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s559028.htm (948 words)

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		Gorton and a number of his followers at one point were tried and convicted of heresy and sedition by the General Court of Massachusetts and sentenced to death (subsequently altered to banishment).
		The second fact which suggests that John Remington was a follower of Gorton, and that their families were on intimate terms, is that one of John Remington's grandsons, Thomas William, married a granddaughter of Samuel Gorton, Maplet Gorton, in 1710.
		Gorton and his men were now peremptorily summoned to Boston to show cause why they should not surrender their land at Shawomet and to answer the charges against them.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /remgor.html (3136 words)

	Samuel
		Gorton was from this date the first citizen of Warwick, and his name stands at the head of the Warwick Commissioners for several succeeding years.
		Gorton's moral character was of the highest caliber and though he differed from the Orthodox Puritans he was never a blasphemer.
		Gorton's political creed may be stated briefly: true liberty can be found only within the framework of the law, which protects the civil right of the individual and the minority from the passing whim of the majority.
	www.davidgorton.com /journal/samuel.htm (3073 words)

	John Gorton. People of the Liberal Party of Australia. Liberals.Net: Liberal Party of Australia
		John Grey Gorton was born on 9 September, 1911 in Melbourne.
		Gorton was elected deputy leader, and Minister of Defence.
		Gorton, recently celebrated his 90th birthday in Sydney and was well attended by people of all political persuasions.
	www.liberals.net /johngorton.htm (391 words)

	The Right Honourable Sir John Gorton GCMG, AC, CH [May 22, 2002]
		Gorton candidly admits to Hancock to "drinking too much and to having 'two or three' extramarital relationships, at least one of which was conducted during his prime ministership".
		Gorton was no less forgiving of Malcolm Fraser who he felt "stabbed" him in the back in the events that ended Gorton's prime ministership in March, 1971 - exactly 31 years ago last Sunday.
		John Gorton was unconventional and unpredictable, and relationships with the media deteriorated considerably during the term of his prime ministership.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/05/02-05-22a.shtml (3806 words)

	John Gorton: He Did it His Way
		John Howard the Liberal Party produced a series of Prime Ministers who will not be looked back on with pride.
		Holt, Gorton, McMahon and Fraser proved to fall far short in their capacities for what was required of a Prime Minister; and of these by no means the least controversial was the supreme egotist, John Gorton.
		Knowing that his leadership was finished Gorton delivered a casting vote against himself, but, with characteristic inappropriateness, stood for and was elected to the position of deputy leader under McMahon.
	www.nationalobserver.net /2002_winter_br2.htm (572 words)

	National Archives of Australia – Fact Sheet 85 – John Grey Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		John Gorton was born in Melbourne in 1911 and lived most of his childhood in Sydney.
		John Gorton was elected to the Senate in 1949 as a senator for the state of Victoria.
		John Gorton was appointed a member of the Privy Council and in 1971 a Companion of Honour.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS85.html (697 words)

	THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN GORTON GCMG, AC, CH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		John Grey Gorton was born on 9 September 1911 and educated at Geelong Grammar School and Oxford University.
		John Gorton was commissioned Prime Minister of Australia on 10 January 1968 after he was elected Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party following the disappearance of Harold Holt in December 1967.
		Sir John's most conspicuous contribution to the life of the nation as Prime Minister was his determined advancement of the Australian national interest.
	www.pm.gov.au /news/media_releases/2002/media_release1657.htm (697 words)

	John Gorton
		Gorton had a distinguished war record; his craggy looks were partly the result of a crash when his aircraft was shot down in 1942.
		John Gorton was 29, married, and had completed an MA at Oxford when he joined the RAAF in late 1940.
		Just two days before the surrender of Singapore Gorton was evacuated on the transport Derrymore, but his problems were far from over; the ship was torpedoed and he only survived after being rescued by the corvette HMAS Ballarat.
	www.awm.gov.au /fiftyaustralians/20.asp (416 words)

	Condolence Motion for the Right Honourable Sir John Gorton GCMG, AC, CH - Senator Ian Macdonald
		As has been clearly demonstrated by the contributions in the Senate today, John Gorton was a really great Australian and one who had a profound effect on Australia — and, I might say, on myself as an impressionable young person in the late sixties and early seventies.
		John Gorton had an exceptional war record and a record of service to the community, through local government and otherwise.
		I admired John Gorton's social conscience, his nationalism, his belief in Australia and the importance and pre-eminence of the national government, his absolute rejection of humbug and hypocrisy and his personal integrity and courage, both in war and in peace.
	www.mffc.gov.au /speeches/2002/gorton.html (522 words)

	Sir John Grey Gorton - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After Holt's death, Gorton was chosen (1967) to replace him as Liberal party leader and prime minister, but stepped down from these positions in 1971.
		Gorton's most significant achievement was probably financing a national film school, an institution that has helped the development of the now burgeoning Australian movie industry.
		Obituary: Sir John Gorton; Australian prime minister with a devil-may-care streak.(Obituaries)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gortonjg.html (320 words)

	ABC Politics - 20/05/02 : Former PM, Sir John Gorton, dead
		Sir John Grey Gorton was born in Melbourne in 1911.
		Sir John was something of a radical preferring reform to conservatism but he supported the Vietnam War and conscription.
		Mr Crean says Sir John was a man who loved his country deeply and served the nation magnificently in peace and war.
	www.abc.net.au /news/politics/2002/05/item20020520121205_1.htm (704 words)

	Sir John Gorton: Larrikin PM
		Prime Minister John Howard was attending independence celebrations in East Timor, but sent this message: "He sought to communicate to Australians of 30 or more years ago that we were a single economic unit and not a collection of state-based economies, and he was right in doing that.
		Gorton loved politics: "I had a wonderful time in politics, not just being Prime Minister, which was only a short time, but all the things I was doing: the Minister for the Navy, the Minister for the CSIRO, the Acting Foreign Affairs Minister and the Minister for Education under Menzies."
		Sir John Gorton is survived by his second wife, Nancy, his sister Ruth, his children, Joanna, Michael and Robin, 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/feature_stories/article_1059.asp?s=1 (1114 words)

	Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On 10 January 1968, John Gorton became the 19th Prime Minister in unusual circumstances.
		Gorton also left the job in unusual circumstances — he declared himself out of office after a tied party vote of confidence in his leadership on 10 March 1971.
		A determined non-conformist and a passionate Australian nationalist, Gorton wanted to turn thinking in the party, and in the nation, in a more independent direction.
	primeministers.naa.gov.au /meetpm.asp?pmId=19 (148 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- SIR JOHN GORTON
		John Grey Gorton was born in Melbourne in 1911 to the daughter of a railroad worker.
		Gorton's relations with key colleagues were also soured by disagreements, some about his style, others about major issues such as states' rights.
		Sir John, whose first wife died in 1983, is survived by his second wife, Nancy Home, whom he married in 1993, and two sons, a daughter, 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20020523-9999_1m23gorton.html (475 words)

	The Commonwealth Treasurer – Press Release - Sir John Gorton [20/05/2002]
		Sir John Gorton was a courageous and forthright Australian who served his country with distinction in military service, as a Parliamentarian, a Minister, and ultimately as Prime Minister.
		After the war, Sir John was elected to the Senate in 1949 and became a Minister in 1958.
		Sir John Gorton was elected to the seat of Higgins in 1968, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Harold Holt.
	www.treasurer.gov.au /tsr/content/pressreleases/2002/030.asp (234 words)

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