Gough Whitlam

✶July 11, 1916

†October 21, 2014

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About their life

Edward Gough Whitlam 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.

Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975

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Biography from the article Gough Whitlam on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.