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John Napier Wyndham Turner PC CC QC (June 7, 1929 – September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of the Official Opposition from 1984 to 1990.
The Liberal Party of Canada held a leadership election on June 16, 1984, to replace retiring Liberal leader and sitting Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.The convention elected former finance minister John Turner, who at the time was not sitting in the House of Commons, as its leader on the second ballot, defeating another former finance minister, Jean Chrétien.
John Turner in 2018. This article is the Electoral history of John Turner, the seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada. A liberal, Turner served one term as prime minister (June 30 to September 17, 1984), as successor to Pierre Trudeau. He had the second shortest-tenure of office of all the prime ministers, with only Charles Tupper having a ...
Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet – Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad; Neville Laski QC – Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry; Sir John May – Judge; Navendu Mishra – Labour MP; Sir Alan Mocatta – English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK; Edwin Montagu – Liberal politician; Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron ...
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Napier was an orthopedic surgeon at the University of London before being invited by Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark to join him in his paleoanthropology research. [1] Napier then dedicated his life afterward to primatology, becoming the founder of the Primate Society of Great Britain, and was among the group, with Louis Leakey and Philip Tobias, that named Homo habilis in the 1960s.
The old campus of Furman University, prior to its relocation under the presidency of John Laney Plyler. This temple was transported from Nagoya to Furman University in 2004, under the presidency of David Shi. 1. James Clement Furman was elected the first president of Furman University in 1859. He served for twenty years, until 1879. 2.
Johnnie Lloyd Turner (December 24, 1947 – October 22, 2024) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Kentucky Senate from the 29th district. Elected in November 2020, he assumed office on January 1, 2021.