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John Turner

The Right Honourable
John Turner
PC CC QC
John Tuner Cropped.jpeg
Turner in 1984
17th Prime Minister of Canada
In office
June 30, 1984 – September 17, 1984
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor General Jeanne Sauvé
Deputy Jean Chrétien
Preceded by Pierre Trudeau
Succeeded by Brian Mulroney
Leader of the Opposition
In office
September 17, 1984 – February 7, 1990
Monarch Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
Preceded by Brian Mulroney
Succeeded by Herb Gray
Minister of Finance
In office
January 28, 1972 – September 10, 1975
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by Edgar Benson
Succeeded by Bud Drury (Acting)
Minister of Justice
Attorney General of Canada
In office
July 6, 1968 – January 28, 1972
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by Pierre Trudeau
Succeeded by Otto Lang
Solicitor General of Canada
In office
April 20, 1968 – July 5, 1968
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by Lawrence Pennell
Succeeded by George McIlraith
Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Registrar General of Canada
In office
December 21, 1967 – July 5, 1968
Prime Minister Lester Pearson
Pierre Trudeau
Preceded by Guy Favreau
Succeeded by George McIlraith
Member of Parliament
for St. Lawrence—St. George
In office
June 18, 1962 – June 25, 1968
Preceded by Egan Chambers
Succeeded by District abolished
Member of Parliament
for Ottawa—Carleton
In office
June 25, 1968 – February 12, 1976
Preceded by Paul Tardif
Succeeded by Jean Pigott
Member of Parliament
for Vancouver Quadra
In office
September 4, 1984 – October 25, 1993
Preceded by Bill Clarke
Succeeded by Ted McWhinney
Personal details
Born John Napier Wyndham Turner
(1929-06-07) June 7, 1929 (age 87)
Richmond, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Geills Turner (m. 1963)
Children 4 (three sons and one daughter)
Residence Deer Park, Toronto, Ontario
Alma mater University of British Columbia
University of Oxford
University of Paris
Occupation Lawyer
Religion Roman Catholic
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John Napier Wyndham Turner, PC, CC, QC (born June 7, 1929) is an English born Canadian lawyer and politician, who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada from June 30 to September 17, 1984.

In his political career, Turner held several prominent Cabinet posts, including minister of justice and minister of finance, under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from 1968 to 1975. Amid a global recession and the prospect of having to implement the unpopular wage and price controls, Turner surprisingly resigned his position in 1975. After a hiatus from politics from 1975 to 1984, Turner returned and successfully contested the Liberal leadership. Turner held the office of prime minister for 79 days (the second shortest tenure in Canadian history after Sir Charles Tupper), as he advised the Governor General to dissolve parliament immediately after being sworn in as prime minister, and went on to lose the 1984 election in a landslide. Turner stayed on as Liberal leader and headed the Official Opposition for the next six years, leading his party to a modest recovery in the 1988 campaign; he resigned as Liberal leader in 1990 and stepped down as an MP at the 1993 election. Turner was Canada's first prime minister born in the United Kingdom since Mackenzie Bowell in 1896.

Turner was born in Richmond, England, to Leonard Hugh Turner, a journalist, and Phyllis Gregory. He had a brother, Michael (who died shortly after birth), born in 1930, and a sister, Brenda. When Turner's father died in 1932, he and his sister moved to Canada with his Canadian-born mother. The family settled in her childhood home in Rossland, British Columbia and later moved to Ottawa.

Turner's mother was loving but demanding of her two children. The family was not wealthy. His mother remarried in 1945 to Frank Mackenzie Ross, who later served as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and the family relocated to Vancouver.


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