John Kerr

The Right Honourable Sir John Robert Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC (September 24 1914 - April 7 1991), Australian judge and 18th Governor-General of Australia, dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, sparking one of the most significant constitutional crises in Australian history.

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Kerr was born in Balmain, a working-class suburb of Sydney, where his father was a boiler-maker. He won scholarships to the University of Sydney and graduated in law, being called to the New South Wales bar in 1938. As a student he met Dr H V Evatt, then a judge of the High Court of Australia, and became a protege of his for many years. In 1938 he married Peggy Worstead, with whom he had three children. He spent World War II working for an intelligence organisation, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, a fact which later gave rise to many conspiracy theories. In 1946 he became principal of the Australian School of Pacific Administration and the first Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission.

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