James Randall Corrigan
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James Randall Corrigan (10 July 1865 – 19 March 1935) was a New Zealand Liberal Party Member of Parliament, farmer and businessman.
Biography
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|start = {{NZ election link year|1922}}
|end = 1925
|term = 21st
|electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Patea}}
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Born at Woodend, North Canterbury, Corrigan was a very successful farmer in the North Island, and breeder of sheep, cattle and trotting horses. He died in Hāwera aged 69 years.{{cite web|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19350320.2.156?end_date=30-03-1935&phrase=0&query=corrigan&start_date=19-03-1935&type=ARTICLE |title= Obituary |newspaper=New Zealand Herald |date= 20 March 1935 |via=PapersPast}}{{cite web|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19350321.2.171?end_date=1935-03-30&phrase=0&query=corrigan&start_date=1935-03-19&type=ARTICLE |title= Obituary |newspaper=Auckland Star |date= 21 March 1935 |via=PapersPast}}{{cite web|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PATM19350320.2.22?end_date=1935-03-30&phrase=0&query=corrigan&start_date=1935-03-19&type=ARTICLE |title= Obituary |newspaper=Patea Mail |date= 20 March 1935 |via=PapersPast}}
James Corrigan represented the Patea electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives between 1922 and 1925.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page=190}}
A daughter, Dorothy Corrigan, married the Independent MP for Nelson, Harry Atmore, in 1936.Harry Atmore: Independent in Politics by Simon Courtney (Undated, BA Hons Research Paper-University of Canterbury, Christchurch), page 4
External links
- {{cite news |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19350320.2.21.1?end_date=01-01-1936&phrase=0&query=corrigan&start_date=01-01-1935 |title= Photo of James Corrigan |newspaper=Evening Post |date= 20 March 1935 |via=PapersPast}}
References
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- Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament Edited by G.A. Wood (1996, Otago University Press, Dunedin)
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Category:New Zealand Liberal Party MPs
Category:People from Woodend, New Zealand
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1925 New Zealand general election
Category:20th-century New Zealand politicians
Category:20th-century New Zealand businesspeople
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
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