1. Sir Ethelbert Alfred Ransom was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party, then its successor the United Party, and from 1936, the National Party.
14 Facts About Alfred Ransom
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Alfred Ransom was a cabinet minister from 1928 to 1935 in the United Government, and was acting Prime Minister in 1930 and in 1935.
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Alfred Ransom received his education at Lower Hutt Primary, where he was school mate with Thomas Wilford.
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Alfred Ransom was a sheep farmer until 1888, and then a saddler in Dannevirke.
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On 1 March 1893, Ransom married Antonette Katinka Sondergaard from Palmerston North at her home town.
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Alfred Ransom was elected onto the Dannevirke Borough Council in 1901.
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Alfred Ransom stood for Mayor of Dannevirke in 1903, but was beaten by the Lutheran pastor Hans Madsen Ries in a closely fought contest.
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Alfred Ransom was Mayor of Dannevirke from 1910, when he succeeded Ries, to 1919.
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Alfred Ransom represented the rural Wairarapa electorate of Pahiatua for the Liberal Party from 1922, when he defeated Reform's Archibald McNicol.
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Alfred Ransom was then appointed deputy leader of the United Party for the North Island.
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Alfred Ransom was twice acting Prime Minister; for five months between 25 August 1930 and 21 January 1931, when Forbes attended the Imperial Conference in London, and again in 1935, when Forbes was overseas once more.
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In 1935, Alfred Ransom was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal, and he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1935 King's Birthday Honours.
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Alfred Ransom died on 22 May 1943 in Dannevirke, where he is buried.
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Alfred Ransom was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.