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The Right Honourable
Joe Clark
PC CC AOE
Clark circa 1970
16th Prime Minister of Canada
In office June 4, 1979 – March 3, 1980
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governor General
Edward Schreyer
Preceded by
Pierre Trudeau
Succeeded by
Pierre Trudeau
Leader of the Opposition
In office March 4, 1980 – February 19, 1983
Preceded by
Pierre Trudeau
Succeeded by
Erik Nielsen
In office February 22, 1976 – June 3, 1979
Preceded by
Robert Stanfield
Succeeded by
Pierre Trudeau
Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
In office November 14, 1998 – May 31, 2003
Preceded by
Elsie Wayne (interim)
Succeeded by
Peter MacKay
In office February 22, 1976 – February 19, 1983
Preceded by
Robert Stanfield
Succeeded by
Erik Nielsen (interim)
President of the Privy Council
In office April 21, 1991 – June 24, 1993
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by
Don Mazankowski
Succeeded by
Pierre Blais
Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada
Acting December 8, 1988 – January 29, 1989
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by
Ray Hnatyshyn
Succeeded by
Doug Lewis
Secretary of State for External Affairs
In office September 17, 1984 – April 20, 1991
Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney
Preceded by
Jean Chrétien
Succeeded by
Barbara McDougall
House of Commons constituencies
Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre
In office November 27, 2000 – June 28, 2004
Preceded by
Eric Lowther
Succeeded by
Lee Richardson
Member of Parliament for Kings—Hants
In office September 11, 2000 – November 27, 2000
Preceded by
Scott Brison
Succeeded by
Scott Brison
Member of Parliament for Yellowhead (Rocky Mountain; 1972–1979)
In office October 30, 1972 – October 25, 1993
Preceded by
Allen Sulatycky
Succeeded by
Cliff Breitkreuz
Personal details
Born
Charles Joseph Clark
(1939-06-05) June 5, 1939 (age 84)[1] High River, Alberta, Canada
Political party
Independent (since 2003)
Other political affiliations
Progressive Conservative (before 2003)
Spouse
Maureen McTeer
(m. 1973)
Children
Catherine Clark
Alma mater
University of Alberta (BA, MA)
Occupation
Politician
journalist
businessman
professor
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Charles Joseph ClarkPC CC AOE (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980.
Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976. He won a minority government in the 1979 election, defeating the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen years of continuous Liberal rule. Taking office the day before his 40th birthday, Clark is the youngest person to become Prime Minister.
Clark's tenure was brief as the minority government was brought down by a non-confidence vote on his first budget in December 1979. The budget defeat triggered the 1980 election. Clark and the Progressive Conservatives lost the election to Trudeau and the Liberals, who won a majority in the Commons and returned to power. Clark lost the leadership of the party to Brian Mulroney in 1983.
Clark returned to prominence from 1984 to 1993 as foreign minister then constitutional affairs minister in Mulroney's cabinet. Clark retired from politics by not standing for re-election for the House of Commons in 1993. He made a political comeback in 1998 to lead the Progressive Conservatives in their last general election before the party's eventual dissolution, serving his final term in Parliament from 2000 to 2004. After the Progressive Conservatives merged with the more right-wing Canadian Alliance to form the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada in 2003, Clark instead sat as an independent Progressive Conservative, criticizing the merger as what he described as an "Alliance take-over", believing that the new party was drifting towards social conservatism. Clark today serves as a university professor and as president of his own consulting firm.
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Public Works in the short-lived minority government of Prime Minister JoeClark. After the Tories were defeated in the 1980 election, he served as Opposition...
confident in the young JoeClark to give him a majority in the House of Commons. Quebec, in particular, was unwilling to support Clark and elected only two...
appointed his foreign minister, JoeClark, as the first minister responsible for constitutional affairs on April 21, 1991. Clark was responsible for establishing...
as leader of the Progressive Conservatives and former Prime Minister JoeClark took over the party and opposed any union with the Reform Party. In the...
fourth ballot, defeating former prime minister and party leader JoeClark. JoeClark became party leader in 1976 and led the PCs to a minority government...
JoeClark was defeated in motion of no confidence in the government and its budget moved by Bob Rae of the NDP and supported by the Liberals. Clark might...
Maureen Anne McTeer is a Canadian author and lawyer, married to JoeClark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada. McTeer was born to John and Bea McTeer....
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark...
This article is the Electoral history of JoeClark, the sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada. A conservative, he served one term as prime minister (1979-1980)...
Twenty-First Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister JoeClark. It governed Canada from 4 June 1979 to 3 March 1980, including all of...
was Hoke Coburn from Driving Miss Daisy/Riding Miss Daisy, Principal JoeClark from Lean on Me) Rick James Steve Harvey Carl Weathers (as Apollo Creed)...
Conservative Party of Canada. The federal Progressive Conservative Party led by JoeClark in the late fall of 1998 rejected the initiative to "unite the right."...
(1920–1921, 1926) R. B. Bennett (1930–1935)[a] John Diefenbaker (1957–1963) JoeClark (1979–1980) Brian Mulroney (1984–1993) Kim Campbell (1993) Stephen Harper...
Progressive Conservative government led by Prime Minister JoeClark was defeated in the Commons. Clark and his government had been under attack for its perceived...
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