Robert Tizard

Infobox_Prime Minister


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name=Rt Hon. Robert Tizard
order=6^th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
|term_start=10 September 1974
term_end=12 December 1975
primeminister=Bill Rowling
predecessor=Hugh Watt
successor=Brian Talboys
birth_date=
birth_place=NZL
death_date=
death_place=
spouse=Dame Catherine Tizard (married 1951, divorced 1980)
party=Labour
constituency_MP2=Panmure
parliament2=New Zealand
term_start2=1972
term_end2=1990
predecessor2=
successor2=Judith Tizard
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Robert (Bob) James Tizard, CNZM (born 1924) is a former Labour politician from New Zealand, former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Minister of Finance and Minister of Health.

Member of Parliament

Tizard was the Member of Parliament for Tamaki from 1957 to 1960, when he was defeated by National's Robert Muldoon. He returned to parliament in the 1963 Otahuhu by-election, but in the 1963 general election was elected MP for Pakuranga. In 1972 he became MP for Otahuhu again. In 1984 he became MP for Panmure, until he retired in 1990.

Cabinet minister

Tizard was appointed as Minister of Health when the Kirk Labour Government was elected in 1972. Following the death of Kirk in 1974, he became Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, replacing Bill Rowling (who the caucus elected Prime Minister) in both roles.

Life after politics

In 2007 Tizard announced his candidacy for the Auckland District Health Boardcite web|title=Tizard's fighting fit to campaign at 83|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10460292|publisher=New Zealand Herald|author=Wayne Thompson|date=28 August 2007|accessdate=2007-08-28]

Personal

Tizard was formerly married to Dame Catherine Tizard, Mayor of Auckland 1983 - 1990 and Governor-General of New Zealand 1990 - 1996 (they divorced in 1980), and is the father of current Cabinet minister Judith Tizard. Judith replaced her father as the Member of Parliament for Panmure.

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