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	John Gorton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 proved to be a surprisingly poor media performer and public speaker, and was portrayed by the media as a foolish and incompetent administrator.
		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.
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	John Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gorton proved to be a surprisingly poor performer and public speaker and was portrayed the media as a foolish and incompetent He was unlucky to come up against new and formidable Labor Opposition Leader in Gough Whitlam.
		Gorton called a Liberal Party meeting and a motion of confidence in his leadership tied he resigned and McMahon was then leader and thus Prime Minister.
		Gorton retired to Canberra where he kept out of the limelight although he quietly rejoined the Liberal His wife died in 1983 but he remarried in 1993.
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	Prime Minister - Sir John Grey Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		John Grey Gorton was born on 9 September 1911, the second child of John Rose Gorton and Alice Sinn.
		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.
	www.gavmag.com /australia/pm_gorton.htm (2494 words)

	John Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9 1911 - May 19 2002) was an Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
		He 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.
		In 1949, Gorton entered Parliament as a Liberal Senator, and served in various positions under Robert Menzies and Harold Holt, including Minister for the Navy, Minister for Education and Minister for Public Works.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_gorton.html (774 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Gorton
		Rt Hon Sir John Gorton GCMG AC CH Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9, 1911 â“ May 19, 2002) was an Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia from 1968-1971.
		Gorton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang, and educated at Geelong Grammar School and at Oxford University, where he completed an MA.
		John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939), is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, coming to office on 11 March 1996 and winning re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004.
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	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 (474 words)

	Encyclopedia: William McMahon
		But John McEwen, caretaker Prime Minister and leader of the Country Party, announced that he and his party would not serve in a government led by McMahon.
		John Malcolm Fraser (born 21 May 1930), Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, came to power in the circumstances of the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
		John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939), Australian politician and 25th Prime Minister of Australia, came to office on 11 March 1996, and gained re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-McMahon (3222 words)

	Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gorton, Sir John Grey Gorton, John Grey (1911-2002), Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia (1968-1971).
		Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester (UK) An amateur symphony orchestra, believed to be oldest orchestra in the city.
		Gorton, D. Portfolio and contact information for the Carbondale, Illinois, US based photojournalist.
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	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.
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	John Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9 1911 - May 19 2002) was an Australia n politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.
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	Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Gorton - After (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gorton’s uneasy personal relationship with the Prime Minister was magnified by differences between the two men over defence policy, most notably over Gorton’s lack of enthusiasm for basing Australian forces overseas and his criticism of Australia’s lack of defence preparedness.
		Angered by the Coalition’s decision to use the Senate to deny Supply to the Whitlam government, and by Governor-General Sir John Kerr’s decision on 11 November to appoint Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, Gorton urged Australians to vote for Labor in the House of Representatives in the subsequent dissolution election of 13 December.
		Gorton did stand as an Independent for the Senate in the ACT and gained 11 per cent of the vote, but failed to win a seat.
	primeministers.naa.gov.au /meetpm.asp?pmId=19&pageName=after (899 words)

	National Archives of Australia – Fact Sheet 85 – John Grey Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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 /fsheets/FS85.html (697 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)

	John Gorton
		John Grey Gorton was Prime Minister from 10 January 1968 to 10 March 1971.
		John Grey Gorton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 9 September 1911.
		Gorton was the second child of John Rose Gorton and Alice Sinn.
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		On the Liberal side Malcolm Fraser has three biographies, although two were inconsequential; John Gorton rated two; Harold Holt had to make do with a memoir by...
		In the early '70s John Gorton was tilting quixotically at foreign ownership and influence, which hardly endeared him to his party?s corporate friends and would...
		Snr-Sgt Gorton said the fingerprint evidence was akin to the accused man...
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	Rt Hon. Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH (RAAF)
		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.
		Entering politics after the war, Gorton was elected as a Liberal Party senator in 1949 and became a minister in 1958.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-heroes/gorton.htm (354 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.
		In March 1971, Fraser became disenchanted with Gorton's style of leadership and told Parliament "He is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister." The next day Gorton and William McMahon drew even in a party room ballot for the leadership.
		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)

	POST Newspapers Online: Letters
		John Grey Gorton (known as Jack Gorton) was included in their shooting parties.
		Gorton was a good shot, enjoyable company, and someone who was always pleased to engage Sir Stanley in political debate.
		It is not generally known that John Gorton, when a schoolboy in 1928 at Portland Bay in Victoria, at either Nunns or Henty's beach, saw swimmer in difficulty, took to the ocean and through surf and rip rescued a 10-year-old girl.
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	NameTraq \| Last Name: Gorton
		Gorton's has added grill marks and seasoned it, which is better than the more typical battering and frying.
		George Gorton, a consultant to backers of the initiative, said the tribes "would be better advised to negotiate and work things out and pay their fair share.".
		Gorton Junior High School received $137,001 to purchase technology and software to be used in a new math curriculum, and Aldrich Junior High School received...
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	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Prime Ministers - Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gorton is the only Australian Prime Minister whose parliamentary career was primarily in the Senate.
		Gorton was a federal parliamentarian for 25 years, from 1950 to 1975.
		Gorton was Prime Minister from 10 January 1968 to 10 March 1971.
	www.aa.gov.au /the_collection/prime_ministers/gorton.html (1332 words)

	John Gorton - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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.
		In 1935 he married Bettina Brown, an American.
		He became the first Senator to be Prime Minister, but he immediately resigned from the Senate and was elected to the House of Representatives at the by-election caused by Holt's death in his electorate of Higgins.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /John_Gorton (782 words)

	War: John Gorton
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		Sir John Gorton (September 9, 1911 - May 19, 2002), Australian politician and 19th Prime Minister of Australia, was born John Grey Gorton in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang.
		He was educated at a prestigious private school and at Oxford University, where he completed an MA.
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	Sir John Grey Gorton -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		On John Curtin's death in July 1945, he was succeeded as prime minister by another ALP stalwart, Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley.
		She was the innocent victim of conspiracies by her father and other nobles to secure power for themselves by putting her on the throne.
		Grey wrote more than 80 books during his career and is credited with helping to mold the literary genre known as the Western.
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	Australia's Prime Ministers - Fast Facts - Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gorton was at school with filmstar Errol Flynn at Shore (1924—26) and painter Russell Drysdale at Geelong Grammar (1927—30)
		Gorton is the only PM sworn in while still a Senator
		American Bettina Gorton was the only prime ministerial wife who was a citizen of another country
	primeministers.naa.gov.au /fastfacts.asp?pmSelectName=19 (316 words)

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		Gorton Ã¼bernahm anschlieÃend das Amt des Verteidugungsministers bis zum 13.
		John Grey Gorton war der einzige Senator, der jemals Premierminister wurde.
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		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9, 1911 – May 19, 2002) was an Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia from 1968-1971.
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	Gorton, Sir John Grey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Party problems, combined with divisions over the Vietnam War and major drops in the government’s support at elections in 1969 and 1970, led to a party vote of confidence in him as leader being taken in 1971.
		The leadership ballot was tied and Gorton resigned rather than use his casting vote to stay in power. He was replaced as prime minister by William McMahon, under whom he was defence minister until 1971.
		He retired finally from politics in 1975. He was knighted in 1977.
	www.pm.gov.au /your_pm/pms/gorton.html (105 words)

	Sir John Grey Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		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) (The Independent (London, England))
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