Taite Te Tomo

{{Short description | Māori politician and Member of Parliament}}

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Taite Te Tomo (1871 or 1872 – 22 May 1939) was a Māori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Te Tomo was probably born in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki.{{DNZB|last=Ballara |first=Angela |id=4t9 |title=Te Tomo, Te Taite|access-date=2020-02-19|df=dmy-all}}

He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Māui Pōmare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Toko Ratana.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 }}

In 1935, he 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 | work= Evening Post | access-date=2 July 2013 | page=4 }}

He was a member of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kākāriki Pā on 22 May 1939.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19390523.2.122.1 | title=Mr. Taite Te Tomo | date=23 May 1939 | work= Evening Post | access-date=4 July 2013 }}