Henry Greenslade

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Greenslade was born in Auckland, but came to Thames, where he grew up, with his parents when he was less than two years old.{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Auckland Provincial District |year=1902 |url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc02Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d5-d13.html#name-426589-mention |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |access-date= 18 May 2012 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Mr. Henry James Greenslade}} He was Mayor of Thames in 1898–1900.{{cite web|title=Mayors and Councillors of Thames|url=http://www.thetreasury.org.nz/Councillors.htm|publisher=The Treasury|access-date=18 May 2012|archive-date=11 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211133733/http://thetreasury.org.nz/Councillors.htm|url-status=dead}} He resigned from the mayoralty in March 1900, as he had bought a farm in Ōhaupō in the Waipa District.{{cite news |title=Thames Mayoralty |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19000323.2.9 |access-date=18 May 2012 |work=Auckland Star |volume=XXXI |issue=70 |date=23 March 1900 |page=2}}

He contested the {{NZ election link|1899}} in the {{NZ electorate link|Thames}} electorate, but was beaten by James McGowan in the three-person contest.{{cite web |url= http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1900-I.2.3.2.54 |title=The General Election, 1899 |date=19 June 1900 |publisher= Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives |page=1 |access-date=12 February 2014 |location=Wellington}}{{cite news |title=Electoral District of Thames |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=THA18991213.2.23.1 |access-date=20 February 2014 |work=Thames Advertiser |date=13 December 1899 |volume=XXIX |issue=9510 |page=3}}{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=215}} He won the Waikato electorate in the 1905 general election, and held it to 1911, when he was defeated by the Reform candidate Alexander Young.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=201, 247}}

In 1935, Greenslade was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | volume=CXIX | issue=105 | newspaper=Evening Post |access-date=23 July 2019 | page=4}} He died in Hamilton on 18 April 1945.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19450419.2.50 |title=Obituary: Mr H. J. Greenslade |date=19 April 945 |work=New Zealand Herald |access-date=23 July 2019 |page=6}}

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• {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-date=1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103}}

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{{s-bef | before=Frederic Lang}}

{{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Waikato|years=1905–1911}}

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Category:1866 births

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Category:New Zealand Liberal Party MPs

Category:Mayors of Thames

Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1899 New Zealand general election

Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1911 New Zealand general election

Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1902 New Zealand general election

Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives

Category:New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates

Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians

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