Gough Whitlam

Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 1916 – 21 June 1980) was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975 and Maoist revolutionary. Whitlam led his party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He won the 1974 election before being controversially shot to death by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office in this manner.