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John Winston Howard OM AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as the treasurer of Australia from 1977 to 1983 under Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
John Howard (born Sept. 2, 1726, Hackney, London, Eng.?—died Jan. 20, 1790, Kherson, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]) was an English philanthropist and reformer in the fields of penology and public health.
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5 days ago · John Howard (born July 26, 1939, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian politician who was prime minister of Australia (1996–2007) and leader of the Liberal Party (1985–89, 1995–2007).
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He then set out for Portugal, traveling on the ship Hanover, which was captured by French privateers. He was imprisoned in Brest, France, for six days before being transferred to another prison on the French coast. He was later exchanged for a French officer held by the British, and he quickly traveled to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded Seame...
Having returned from France, he settled again at Cardington, Bedfordshire, to live on a 200 acre estate which consisted of two farms, the larger of which he had inherited from his grandparents. He spent the next two years building properties and trying to improve the lives of the tenants living on his land. Later, a survey of Cardington in 1782 fou...
Howard was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, initially for a one-year period. Such was his dedication that, rather than delegating his duties to the under-sheriff as was customary, Howard inspected the county prison himself. He was shocked by what he found, and spurred into action to inspect prisons throughout England. Of particular concern t...
Howard's final journey took him into Eastern Europe and Russia, where he researched ways to limit contagious diseases. While visiting the military hospital in Kherson, in what is now Ukraine, Howard contracted typhus and died. He was buried on the shores of the Black Sea. Despite requesting a quiet funeral without pomp and ceremony, the event was e...
The John Howard Pavilion at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., is the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital for the District of Columbia. Its most notorious inmate was John Hinckley, Jr. , failed assassin of then US president Ronald Wilson Reagan in 1981.
John Howard waited a long time to become Prime Minister. By the time he won the job, he had been in parliament for 22 years. Howard became Australia’s second-longest-serving Prime Minister, and during his term in office achieved nationwide gun safety legislation and significant reforms in industrial relations and taxation.
Mar 1, 2021 · Former prime minister John Howard was once derided as "Mr 18 Per Cent". So how did the man who was dumped from the Liberal leadership become Australia's second-longest-serving PM?
