Gough Whitlam

(1916-2014)

Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia

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Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.

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Born	11 July 1916 Kew, Melbourne, Australia
Died	21 October 2014 (aged 98) Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Zodiac	Cancer
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Margaret Whitlam 1919-2012 · wife of Gough Whitlam, an Australian prime minister · m. 1942 info edit

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Tony Whitlam · Son · 1944- · Australian politician and judge son of Gough and Margaret Whitlam edit info

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Nicholas Whitlam · Son · 1945- · Australian businessman edit info

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