While in the Navy, "Jack" was Commanding Oficer of USS PT-109, an 80-foot ELCO type motor torpedo boat. On 2 August, 1943, it was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and sank, leaving 11 survivors. Lt. Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his courage and leadership and the Purple Heart for injuries sustained.

John Gorton

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

1968-71. Liberal Party

John Howard

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Australian Prime Minister

11 March 1996 - 24 November 2007. Liberal Party.

John Key

is/was the

New Zealand Prime Minister

2008 - 2016

John Major

is/was the

U.K. Prime Minister

November 1990 - May 1997

John McEwan

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

1967-68. Country Party.

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1825

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1841

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is/was the

Spanish Prime Minister

5 May 1996 -17 April 2004

Joseph Cook

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Australian Prime Minister

24 June 1913 – 17 September 1914

Joseph Lyons

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Australian Prime Minister

1932-39. United Party

Joseph Stalin

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USSR Communist Party Leader

1922-53

Josip Broz Tito

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S.F.R. of Yugoslavia President

1953- 1980

Kamal Attaturk

is/was the

Turkish President

Kjell Magne Bondevik

is/was the

Norwegian Prime Minister

2001-05

Koizumi Junichiro

is/was the

Japanese Prime Minister

2001-03, 2003-05 and 2005-06. Liberal Democratic

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1949-63. CDU

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is/was the

USSR Communist Party Leader

1964-82

Lester (Mike) Pearson

is/was the

Canadian Prime Minister

1963-68

Louis Botha

is/was the

South African President

Louis St Laurent

is/was the

Canadian Prime Minister

1948-57

Lt. Jerry Rawlings

is/was the

President of Ghana

He returned Ghana to democratic rule in 1992 when he became president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

is/was the

U.S. President

1963

Malcolm Fraser

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

1975-83. Liberal Party

Malcolm Turnbull

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

29th Prime Minister - 2015 - 2018

Margaret Thatcher

is/was the

U.K. Prime Minister

May 1979 - November 1990

Martin Van Buren

is/was the

U.S. President

1837

Menachem Begin

is/was the

Israeli Prime Minister

1977-83

Mikhail Gorbachev

is/was the

Soviet Union President

Head of State of the USSR from March 15, 1990 to December 25, 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and only person to occupy the office.

is/was the

1850

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is/was the

May 1937 - May 1940

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USSR Communist Party Leader

1953-64

Nikola Gruevski

is/was the

Macedonian Prime Minister

Since 27 August 2006. He has also been the leader of VMRO-DPMNE since May 2003.

Olof Palme

is/was the

Swedish Prime Minister

1969-76 and 1982-86. Killed February 1986

Paul Keating

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

1991-96 . Labor Party.

Paul Martin

is/was the

Canadian Prime Minister

2003-06

Pierre Trudeau

is/was the

Canadian Prime Minister

1968-79 and 1980-84

Ramos Horta

is/was the

President of East Timor

May 9, 2007 - Current

Ramsay MacDonald

is/was the

U.K. Prime Minister

January 1924 - November 1924; June 1929 - June 1935

Richard Nixon

is/was the

U.S. President

1969

Richard Seddon

is/was the

New Zealand Prime Minister

Aka 'King Dick', was the longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand 27 April 1893 – 10 June 1906. He is regarded by some as one of New Zealand's greatest political leaders. Under his leadership New Zealand became the first country in the world to give the vote to women though Seddon initially opposed this.

Robert Hawke

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

1983-91. Labor Party. Holds record for the fastest consumption of a yard of ale at University of Western Australia.

Robert Menzies

is/was the

Australian Prime Minister

1939-41. United Party. 1949-66. Liberal Party.

Robert Mugabe

is/was the

President of Zimbabwe

Ronald Reagan