Jack Watts

Politician

1909 – 1970

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Who was Jack Watts?

Jack Thomas Watts was a New Zealand politician of the National Party and the twenty-seventh Minister of Finance, from November 1954 to 12 December 1957, when he retired.

He was the Member of Parliament for Riccarton 1943–46, then St Albans 1946–57, then Fendalton 1957–60. He was Minister of Health and Minister of Social Security in the Holland Ministry, then Minister of Finance and Minister in Charge of the Census and Statistics Department in the next Holland Ministry and in the first Holyoake Ministry of 1957.

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Born
Apr 15, 1909
Palmerston North
Died
Aug 6, 1970
Wellington

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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