Michael Jeffery

Philip Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC ( born December 12, 1937 in Wiluna, Western Australia ) is an Australian politician and from 2003 to 2008, the 24th Governor General of the country.

He has been married since the late 1960s with Marlena Kerr, with whom he has three sons and a daughter.

Military career

Michael Jeffery was at the age of 16 years to Canberra, there to attend the Royal Military College Duntroon. After graduating in 1958, he fulfilled his duties in a regiment stationed in Perth, before he was sent in 1962 to the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. After a brief return to Perth in 1965 he was sent from 1966 to 1969 to Papua New Guinea. During the now following deployment in Vietnam, he was awarded the Military Cross. In 1972 he was allowed to visit the British Army Staff College, Camberley, England and was then mixed with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as a battalion commander, to Wewak, Papua New Guinea.

Now, Colonel, he returned back to Perth in 1976 to command the regiment in which he had begun his military career. From 1981 to 1983 he led an office of the Department of Defense with the rank of Brigadier, before he led a brigade stationed in Sydney. In 1985, he was trained at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. Subsequently, he was promoted to Major General and commander of a division. From 1989 he finally was a member of the General Staff of the Australian Army.

Governor of Western Australia and Governor-General of Australia

On November 1, 1993 he was sworn in as Governor of the Australian state of Western Australia. This post he held for seven years until 2000.

Jeffery was nominated on 22 June 2003 by the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard as Governor-General and sworn in on 11 August of the same year in this office. The Governor of Queensland, Quentin Bryce broke Jeffery on 5 September 2008 as the first woman in the office of Governor-General from.