Bruce Beetham
Politician
1936 – 1997
Who was Bruce Beetham?
Bruce Craig Beetham QSO was an academic and politician from New Zealand, whose career spanned the 1970s and early 1980s.
A lecturer at Hamilton's University of Waikato and at the Hamilton Teachers' Training College, he was elected leader of the Social Credit Party in 1972, at a time when the party was in disarray and many were questioning its chances of survival. A brilliant organiser and an electrifying speaker, Beetham succeeded in rebuilding the party, and by the late 1970s it was challenging the stranglehold on the two-party system of the long-dominant National and Labour parties.
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- Born
- Feb 16, 1936
New Plymouth - Nationality
- New Zealand
- Education
- New Plymouth Boys' High School
- Died
- May 3, 1997
Palmerston North
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on July 23, 2013
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