1. John Luxton's father, Jack Luxton, was a National Party MP from 1966 to 1987.
15 Facts About John Luxton
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John Luxton was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 election as the MP for Matamata.
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John Luxton replaced his father, Jack Luxton, who held the Piako electorate then Matamata for 21 years from 1966, and had been Chairman of Committees in Parliament.
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John Luxton held Matamata until the 1996 election, when a boundary change caused him to stand in the seat of Karapiro.
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The National Party won the 1990 election, and Jim Bolger became Prime Minister, John Luxton was appointed to Cabinet.
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John Luxton was an Associate Minister of Education and of Overseas Trade.
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John Luxton was regarded by many as one of the more economically liberal members of the National Party.
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John Luxton was one of the founders of the Open Country Cheese Company and the Kaimai Cheese Company, located near Matamata, in the Waikato, along with former colleague Wyatt Creech.
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John Luxton held a number of directorships in the agribusiness sector including the Tatua Coop Dairy Company, having been a previous Chairman, and Wallace Corporation, and has farming interests.
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John Luxton was chair of DairyNZ, the New Zealand Dairy Industry Good organisation which represents all New Zealand dairy farmers, between 2008 and 2015.
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John Luxton was for a short period a director of listed investment and property company Blue Chip, Luxton resigned from that Board.
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John Luxton was appointed a Co-Chair of the Waikato River Authority and was a member of the New Zealand Constitutional Advisory Panel.
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John Luxton sat on the boards of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company and Landcare Research, one of the Crown Research Institutes.
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John Luxton died in Wellington on 16 November 2021, after a long illness.
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John Luxton was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the dairy industry, in the 2017 New Year Honours.