John Guise

Sir John Douglas Guise GCMG , KBE (born August 29, 1914 in Gedulalara , Milne Bay Province , Papua New Guinea , † February 7, 1991 ) was a Papua New Guinean politician .

biography

John Guise was an early proponent of the sovereignty of Papua New Guinea and was during the 1950s, employees of the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs ( Department of Native Affairs ). After he was of the Legislative Council of East Papua 1961-1963 Member, he was in 1964 for members of the Assembly House ( House of Assembly elected), the speaker ( Speaker ), he was from 1968 to 1972. He was then Deputy Chief Minister and Interior Minister from 1972 to 1975. In 1972 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and then knighted on June 6, 1975 by Queen Elizabeth II as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

On the occasion of the independence of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975 he became the first Governor General of Papua New Guinea on the same day and was also beaten to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George . After only one and a half years in office, he resigned on March 1, 1977 in order to then run for the office of prime minister in the parliamentary elections, but was subject to the incumbent Michael Somare .

Nevertheless, he remained politically active in the following years and saw himself as a spokesman for the population dissatisfied with the Somare government. After his death, the John Guise Stadium was named after him.

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