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Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam
( 11 July 191621 October 2014) was the
21st
Prime Minister of Australia
, serving from 1972 to 1975. The
Leader of the Labor Party
from 1967 to 1977, Whitlam led his party to power for the first time in 23 years at the
1972 election
. He won the
1974 election
before being controversially dismissed by the
Governor-General of Australia
, Sir
John Kerr
, at the climax of the
1975 Australian constitutional crisis
. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have his commission terminated in that manner.
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