John Napier Turner Was Born in Richmond, Surrey, England, on June 7, 1929

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THE Rt. Hon. John N. Turner, P.C., C.C., Q.C.

John Napier Turner was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, on June 7, 1929. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with an honours Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1949. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received from that university a Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence (1951), a Bachelor of Civil Law (1952), and a Master of Arts (1957). He also engaged in graduate studies in French Civil Law at the Sorbonne in Paris. Mr. Turner received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of New Brunswick (1968), York University (1969), University of British Columbia (1986), University of Toronto (1996) and Assumption University, Windsor (2002), as well as an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law from Mount Allison University (1980).

Mr. Turner was named a member of the English Bar, Gray's Inn, London, in 1953. The following year, he was called to the Bar of Quebec, and he joined the firm of Stikeman, Elliott, Barristers and Solicitors, in Montreal. In 1968, he was called to the Bar in Ontario and named Queen's Counsel in Ontario and in Quebec. He was called to the Barbados Bar in January 1969; to the Yukon and Northwest Territories Bars in April 1969; to the Trinidad Bar in October 1969; and to the British Columbia Bar in December 1969.

John Turner was first elected to the House of Commons in June 1962 as Member of Parliament for Montreal-St. Lawrence-St. George, and was re-elected in the general elections of 1963 and 1965. He was appointed Minister without Portfolio in December 1965; Registrar General in April 1967; and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs in December 1967. In April 1968, he was given additional responsibilities as Solicitor General of Canada.

Mr. Turner was re-elected in the riding of Ottawa-Carleton in the general election of 1968, and appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in July 1968. Mr. Turner was named Minister of Finance in January 1972. He resigned from that position in September 1975. Mr. Turner resigned as a Member of Parliament in February 1976 to join the law firm of McMillan, Binch in Toronto.

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At its national convention, the Liberal Party of Canada elected John Turner as leader on June 16, 1984. Mr. Turner was sworn in as the seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada on June 30, 1984. His Party was defeated in the general election of September 4, 1984, but Mr. Turner was elected as Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver Quadra (British Columbia), and was sworn in as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons on September 17, 1984. Mr. Turner was re-elected as the Member for Vancouver Quadra in the general election of November 21, 1988, and sworn in as Leader of the Opposition on December 6, 1988.

On May 3, 1989, Mr. Turner announced his intention to resign as Leader of the Liberal Party, with his successor to be elected at a national convention on June 23, 1990. Mr. Turner resigned as Leader of the Opposition on February 7, 1990 to become a partner in the Toronto law firm of Miller Thomson. He remained the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra until October 1993. Mr. Turner has served in the House of Commons for almost 25 years and is the only man in history to have represented three provinces; Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.

On May 3, 1995, Mr. Turner was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.

On May 11, 1963, John Turner married the former Geills McCrae Kilgour. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have four children: one daughter, Elizabeth (born March 8, 1964), and three sons, Michael (born October 28, 1965), David (born May 14, 1968), and James Andrew (born October 7, 1971).