Norman King

For the New South Wales politician, see Norm King. For the British admiral, see Norman King (Royal Navy officer).

Norman James King (1914 - 28 May 2002) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and a cabinet minister.

He represented the Waitemata electorate from 1954 to 1969, and then the Birkenhead electorate from 1969 to 1975, when he was defeated by Jim McLay.

In 1957 he had defeated Rob Muldoon in his second attempt to enter parliament. Zavos says that King was a poor speaker, a tiny birdlike man, a storeman and packer before taking up politics … (but) a shrewd operator, however, whose greatest strength was that he was aware of his limitations. He realised he could not match the expert debating techniques Muldoon had developed. So King restricted himself to two campaign meetings, and the slight swing to Labour carried King back.

References

• New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
• The Real Muldoon by Spiro Zavos (1978, Fourth Estate Books, Wellington)
• tribute by Ann Hartley

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Name	King, Norman
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Date of birth	1873
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Date of death	1935
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