Frank Gill (politician)

Frank Gill (politician)

Thomas Francis (Frank) Gill (1917 – 1 March 1982) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party, and an Air Commodore in the RNZAF. He represented the Waitemata electorate in Parliament from 1969 to 1972, and then the East Coast Bays electorate in Parliament from 1972 to 1980, when he retired.

He was a Cabinet Minister, and held the positions of Minister of Health 1975-78 and Minister of Defence 1978-80 . ["New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)]

He was New Zealand's Ambassador to the United States from 1981 until his death. ["The New Zealand Almanac" by Max Lambert and Ron Palenski, (1982, Moa Press)]

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