Holt, Harold

Holt, Harold

▪ prime minister of Australia
born Aug. 5, 1908, Sydney
died Dec. 17, 1967, near Portsea, Victoria, Australia
 prime minister of Australia (1966–67) who supported U.S. policies in Vietnam and sponsored the visit to Australia of Lyndon B. Johnson, the first American president-in-office to travel there.

      As a Melbourne lawyer during the early 1930s, Holt became interested in the United Australia Party, the forerunner of the Liberal Party, and was elected to the federal Parliament in 1935. In 1941 he organized the Department of Labour and National Service for wartime mobilization under Robert Menzies. When Menzies returned to power in 1949, Holt became minister of labour (1949–58) and of immigration (1949–56). He served as leader of the House of Representatives and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1966 and as federal treasurer (1958–66). His strict anti-inflationary measures in 1960 helped to create a recession that nearly cost his party the 1961 election.

      Succeeding Menzies as prime minister in 1966, Holt generated controversy by increasing Australian troop support of the South Vietnamese military effort, but he was reelected with an increased majority in late 1966. He reduced the residency requirement for Australian citizenship and the training requirements for entrance, though some barriers against immigration of Asians remained. A devoted water sportsman, he apparently drowned while swimming off Cheviot Beach in Bass Strait.

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