John Turner
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The Right Honourable John Turner PC CC QC |
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Turner in 1984
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| 17th Prime Minister of Canada | |
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In office June 30, 1984 – September 17, 1984 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Jeanne Sauvé |
| Deputy | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Pierre Trudeau |
| Succeeded by | Brian Mulroney |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office September 17, 1984 – February 7, 1990 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Brian Mulroney |
| Preceded by | Brian Mulroney |
| Succeeded by | Herb Gray |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office January 28, 1972 – September 10, 1975 |
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| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Edgar Benson |
| Succeeded by | Bud Drury (Acting) |
| Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada |
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In office July 6, 1968 – January 28, 1972 |
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| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Pierre Trudeau |
| Succeeded by | Otto Lang |
| Solicitor General of Canada | |
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In office April 20, 1968 – July 5, 1968 |
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| Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Lawrence Pennell |
| Succeeded by | George McIlraith |
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Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Registrar General of Canada |
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In office December 21, 1967 – July 5, 1968 |
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| Prime Minister |
Lester Pearson Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Guy Favreau |
| Succeeded by | George McIlraith |
| Member of Parliament for St. Lawrence—St. George |
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In office June 18, 1962 – June 25, 1968 |
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| Preceded by | Egan Chambers |
| Succeeded by | District abolished |
| Member of Parliament for Ottawa—Carleton |
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In office June 25, 1968 – February 12, 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Tardif |
| Succeeded by | Jean Pigott |
| Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra |
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In office September 4, 1984 – October 25, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Ted McWhinney |
| Personal details | |
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John Napier Wyndham Turner June 7, 1929 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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