jim bolger

Personal details

Full Name:

  • James Brendan Bolger

Lifetime:

  • 31 May 1935

Prime Minister:

2 Nov 1990-8 Dec 1997

Age on becoming PM:

55

Electorate:

King Country

Political Party:

National

Biography

New Zealand’s most openly republican PM, Jim Bolger presided over major electoral reform and Treaty of Waitangi settlements and outflanked Cabinet opposition to funding the new national museum.

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