Gough Whitlam

Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC 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 inyears at the 1972 election. He won the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the GovernorGeneral 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.

Edward Gough Whitlam was born onJuly 1916 at the family home Ngara, 46 Rowland Street, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne. He was the older of two children born to Martha and Fred Whitlam. His father was a federal public servant who later served as Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, and Whitlam seniors involvement in human rights issues was a powerful influence on his son. Since the boys maternal grandfather was also named Edward, from early childhood he was called by his middle name, Gough, which in turn had come from his paternal grandfather, who had been named after the British soldier FieldMarshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough.

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