biography
| name: |
Turner, John Napier
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Canadian statesman and prime minister (1984), born in Richmond, SW Greater London, UK. His family emigrated to Canada in 1932, where he studied at the University of British Columbia, and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford before spending a year at the University of Paris. He was called to the English bar, and later the bars of Quebec and Ontario, being made a QC in 1968. He entered the Canadian House of Commons in 1962, and was a junior minister in Lester Pearson's government, and later attorney general and finance minister under Pierre Trudeau. When Trudeau retired in 1984, Turner succeeded him as Liberal prime minister. He lost the general election later the same year, and became Leader of the Opposition. He resigned the leadership of his Party in 1990, returning to his law practice. |
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