Alfred E. Allen

Alfred E. Allen

Alfred Ernest (Alf) Allen (20 May1912 -1987) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was the seventeenth Speaker of the House of Representatives, in 1972.

He unsuccessfully stood as the Hamilton candidate for breakaway Labour MP John A. Lee and his Democratic Labour Party in the 1943 general election.

He was the National Member of Parliament for Franklin from 1957 (when the veteran sitting MP John Norman Massey was deselected by the National Party in favour of Allen) to 1972, when he retired.

He was born in Onehunga, Auckland in 1912.

He married Nancy Cutford in 1935. They had one son and three daughters. He was awarded the CMG in 1973.

In World War II he served in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1940 to 1943.

Further reading

:*citation |first = Barry |last = Gustafson |author-link = Barry Gustafson |title = The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party |place = Auckland, [N.Z.] |publisher = Reed Methuen |date = 1986 |isbn = 0-474-00177-6 |page = 296-297

:*citation |first = G. C. (ed.) |last = Peterson |title = Who's who in New Zealand |edition = 10th |place = Wellington, [N.Z.] |publisher = A.H. & A.W. Reed |date = 1971

:*citation |first = James Oakley |last = Wilson |title = New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 |edition = 4th |place = Wellington, [N.Z.] |publisher = Government Printer |date = 1985


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