Duncan MacIntyre (New Zealand)
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Brigadier-General Duncan MacIntyre, CMG, DSO
Distinguished Service Order
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, OBE, ED
Efficiency Decoration
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, PC
Privy council
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 (10 November 19158 June 2001) was a New Zealand
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 politician of the National Party
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. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1981 to 1984 under Prime Minister Robert Muldoon
Robert Muldoon
Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon, GCMG, CH served as the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing National Party. Muldoon had been a prominent member of the National party and MP for the Tamaki electorate for some years prior to becoming leader of the party...

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Member of Parliament

MacIntyre represented the Hastings
Hastings (New Zealand electorate)
Hastings was a parliamentary electorate in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand from 1946 to 1996.The electorate was represented by nine Members of Parliament: Edward Luttrell Cullen 1946-49, Sydney Jones 1949-54, Edwin Keating 1954-60, Duncan MacIntyre 1960-72, Richard Mayson 1972-75, William...

 electorate in Parliament from 1960 to 1972, when he was defeated. With Rob Muldoon and Peter Gordon
John Bowie Gordon
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 he was one of the three Young Turks of the National Party who entered Parliament in 1960.

In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment
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 for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government
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 had introduced. In 1971 and 1972 MacIntyre was Administrator of Tokelau.

He then represented the Bay of Plenty
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 electorate in Parliament from 1975 to 1978, and the East Cape
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 electorate from 1978 to 1984, when he retired. His son, Hamish MacIntyre
Hamish MacIntyre
Hamish MacIntyre was a New Zealand politician who at various times represented the National Party, Liberal Party, and the Alliance. His father was the Rt Hon Duncan MacIntyre, who was Deputy Prime Minister to Muldoon in the Third National Government, and he was born in Waipukurau.He was elected to...

, was elected to Parliament in 1990
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.

He was a Cabinet Minister, and was Minister of Māori Affairs
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1969-72 and 1975-78.

He was made a Privy Councillor in 1980.
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