The Resume

(December 20, 1894-May 15, 1978)
Born in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia
Member of Parliament for Kooyong (1934-66)
Two-term Prime Minister of Australia (1939-41,1949-66)
Founding member of the Liberal Party (1945)

Why he might be annoying:

His insistence on pronouncing his last name in the traditional Scots manner ('Ming-iss') resulted in the nickname 'Ming the Merciless.'
During his first year in college, he failed Latin.
After a tour of Nazi Germany, he wrote, 'The abandonment by the Germans of individual liberty has something rather magnificent about i (1938)
He allowed the British to test nuclear weapons on Australian soil.
He sent Australian soldiers to participate in the Vietnam War.
A Parliamentary colleague noted, 'He tended to say things that were not only cutting and unkind, but that were unjustified.'

Why he might not be annoying:

At thirteen, he ranked first in the state of Victoria in a national scholarship examination.
He protested 'the barbaric and medieval persecution' of Jews in Germany (1938).
He was the longest-serving Australian Prime Minister.
When a heckler shouted, 'I wouldn't vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel, he retorted, 'If I were the Archangel Gabriel, I'm afraid you wouldn't be in my constituency.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Attorney
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 80]
• I Attended Winston Churchill’s State Funeral [January 30, 1965]
• I Come from Oz
• I Died in 1978 (Ranked: 83)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• Knights
• Look at Me, I'm with Winston Churchill
• Profiles 51056-51250 (Ranked: 51180)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 18 Votes: 77.78% Annoying