monarch children constituency_mp birth_date signature residence term_end alma_mater governor_general order term_start spouse image name occupation caption deputy predecessor birth_place party office successor religion primeminister article_title birth_name
elizabeth ii elizabeth ii 4 -lrb- three sons and one daughter -rrb- st. quadra lawrence -- st. george ottawa -- carleton vancouver 7 june 1929 john turner signature.svg deer park , toronto , ontario september 25 , 1968 february 12 , 1976 october 25 , 17 1993 , 1984 february 7 , 1990 june university paris of british columbia university of oxford university of jeanne sauvé 17th june 18 , 1962 june 25 , 1968 september 4 , 30 1984 , 1984 september 17 , 1984 june geills turner 1963 file : john tuner cropped.jpeg john turner lawyer turner in 1984 jean chrétien pierre clarke trudeau brian mulroney egan chambers paul tardif bill richmond , england liberal prime minister of canada leader of the opposition brian mcwhinney mulroney herb gray district abolished jean pigott ted roman catholic brian mulroney john turner
 john napier wyndham turner
john turner

john napier wyndham turner , pc , cc , qc -lrb- born june 7 , 1929 -rrb- is a canadian lawyer and politician , who served as the 17th prime minister of canada from june 30 to september 17 , 1984 .
in his political career , turner held several prominent cabinet posts , including minister of justice and minister of finance , under prime minister pierre trudeau from 1968 to 1975 .
amid a world recession and the prospect of having to implement the unpopular wage and price controls , turner surprisingly resigned his position in 1975 .
after a hiatus from politics from 1975 to 1984 , turner returned and successfully contested the liberal leadership .
turner held the office of prime minister for 79 days -lrb- the second shortest tenure in canadian history after sir charles tupper -rrb- , as he dissolved parliament immediately after being sworn in as prime minister , and went on to lose the 1984 election in a landslide .
turner stayed on as liberal leader and headed the official opposition for the next six years , leading his party to a modest recovery in the 1988 campaign ; he resigned as liberal leader in 1990 and stepped down as an m.p. at the 1993 election .
turner was canada 's first prime minister born in the united kingdom since mackenzie bowell in 1896 .
