John Napier Turner
Prime Minister of Canada: June 30 1984 - September 17 1984
BORN June 7 1929, Richmond, Surrey, England - Emigrated to Canada in 1932
Educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A. Honours), Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar (B.A., Bachelor of Civil Law), and the University of Paris (the Sorbonne).
Married 1963, Geills McCrae Kilgour (b. 1937) One daughter, three sons.
Practiced law in Toronto, Ontario and was elected as a member of Parliament in 1962 and served in the Cabinet until his leaving political life in 1976. On the resignation of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1984, John Turner re-entered politics and was elected leader of his party and Prime Minister of Canada.
Canada’s shortest serving Prime Minister, he was defeated by Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative party in the 1984 federal election. He would remain leader of the opposition, losing to Mulroney again in the election of 1988, until stepping down permanently in 1990.