Johannes Bjelke-Peterson
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Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen, KCMG (13 January 1911 - 23 April 2005), New Zealand-born Australian politician, was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of the state of Queensland. He held office from 1968 to 1987, a period that saw considerable economic development in the state. His uncompromising conservatism (including his role within the downfall of the Whitlam federal government), his political longevity, and his leadership of a government that, in its latter years, was revealed to be institutionally corrupt, made him one of the best-known political figures in twentieth-century Australia.
Born/Established
b.1911
Died/Ceased
d.2005
Place of Birth
Dannevirke, New Zealand
Place of Death
Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
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