Michael Joseph Savage

...appeared tired and apathetic. These factors all added up to a decisive defeat of the coalition by the Labour Party, and the appointment of Michael Joseph Savage as New Zealand's first Labour Prime Minister. United and Reform, still in...

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...friends as a "compassionate champion of the common people". His successor, the moderate Michael Joseph Savage, went on to lead the Labour Party to victory in the 1935 elections . He has a memorial in the Bolton Street Cemetery in Wellington,...

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...by John A. Lee a Labour Party member who launched strong attacks on its economic policy. Lee was particularly vicious towards Savage and Nash. Peter Fraser became Prime Minister after Savage's death and Lee was expelled. Nash, himself,...

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...sign of impending class warfare. While the Labour Party gained some electoral success, it continued to trail the Liberal Party and the Reform Party until the replacement of Holland with Michael Joseph Savage. Savage, although also involved in...

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...the party, establishing the breakaway Democratic Labour Party . Savage died in 1940, and was replaced by Peter Fraser, who became Labour's longest-serving Prime Minister. Fraser is best-known as New Zealand's leader for most of World War...

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...years, and would not be in government for more than a single term until the 1980s. The government was led by Michael Joseph Savage until his death in 1940. He was succeeded by Peter Fraser, who was Prime Minister for the rest of the...

In this article: Labour Party, New Zealand, New Zealand National Party, Conscription, World War II, World War I, Country Party, Labour Party, and Welfare state

The members selected Harry Holland as the Labour Party's leader. Michael Joseph Savage, Fraser's old ally from the New Zealand Socialist Party, also participated. Later in 1916, the government had Fraser and several other members of...

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...margin in the 1938 elections . Michael Joseph Savage, the first Labour Prime Minister , died in 1940 - he was replaced by Peter Fraser, who, while not as popular as Savage, was widely viewed as competent. In the same year as Fraser took...

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...1939, but continued to attack Labour's leaders. Later that year, Lee published an article entitled Psycho-pathology in politics, which attacked the mental capability of the seriously-ill Savage. This was seen as excessive even by many of Lee's...

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