Prime Ministers - New Zealand in History

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Hongi Hika, chief of the Nga Puhi tribe

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Te Kooti : resistant, prophet, founder of the Ringatu church

Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister

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Premier and Prime Minister timeline

The first terms only of these Premiers and Prime Ministers are listed below

Premiers

Name		1st Term	End 1st term

SEWELL	Henry	7/5/1856	20/5/1856

FOX	William	20/5/1856	2/6/1856

STAFFORD	Edward William	2/6/1856	12/7/1861

DOMETT	Alfred	6/8/1862	30/10/1863

WHITAKER	Frederick	30/10/1863	24/11/1864

WELD	Frederick Aloysius	24/11/1864	16/10/1865

WATERHOUSE	George Marsden	11/10/1872	3/3/1873

VOGEL	Julius	8/4/1873	6/7/1875

POLLEN	Daniel	6/7/1875	15/2/1876

ATKINSON	Harry Albert	13/9/1876	13/10/1877

GREY	George	13/10/1877	8/10/1879

HALL	John	8/10/1879	21/4/1882

STOUT	Robert	16/8/1884	28/8/1884

BALLANCE	John	24/1/1891	27/4/1893

SEDDON	Richard John	1/5/1893	10/6/1906

Prime Ministers
"Prime Minister" officially became the term for leader of the New Zealand government during the term of Richard John Seddon, in 1893. Previous leaders were entitled to be called "Premier". [1]

Name		1st term	End 1st term

HALL-JONES	William	21/6/1906	6/8/1906

WARD	Joseph George	6/8/1906	28/3/1912

MacKENZIE	Thomas	28/3/1912	10/7/1912

MASSEY	William Ferguson	10/71/1912	10/5/1925

BELL	Francis Henry Dillon	14/5/1925	30/5/1925

COATES	Joseph Gordon	30/5/1925	10/12/1928

FORBES	George William	28/5/1930	6/12/1935

SAVAGE	Michael Joseph	6/12/1935	27/3/1940

FRASER	Peter	1/4/1940	13/12/1949

HOLLAND	Sidney George	13/12/1949	20/9/1957

HOLYOAKE	Keith	20/9/1957	12/12/1957

NASH	Walter	12/12/1957	12/12/1960

MARSHALL	John Ross	7/2/1972	8/12/1972

KIRK	Norman Eric	8/12/1973	31/8/1974

ROWLING	Wallace Edward	6/9/1974	12/12/1975

MULDOON	Robert David	12/12/1975	26/7/1984

LANGE	David Russell	26/7/1984	8/8/1989

PALMER	Geoffrey Winston Russell	8/8/1989	4/9/1990

MOORE	Michael Kenneth	4/9/1990	2/11/1990

BOLGER	James Brendan	2/11/1990	12/10/1996

SHIPLEY	Jennifer Mary	8/12/1997	5/12/1999

CLARK	Helen	27/11/1999

Source for this listing : The New Zealand Official Yearbook

[1] Source : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Bateman

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Governors and Governor-General timeline

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