John James Terris was born on 19 June 1939 and is a New Zealand politician, priest and broadcaster who represented the Labour Party in the New Zealand parliament.
26 Facts About John Terris
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John Terris was a member Lower Hutt Family Centre Trust and a convenor of the Hutt Youth Drop-In Centre Management Committee.
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John Terris became active in broadcasting on both radio and television.
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John Terris had been employed at various stages as an announcer, interviewer, and executive producer.
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John Terris was a trade unionist and was employed at the Public Service Association as a senior advocate.
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John Terris became involved in the Labour Party and became chairman of the Hutt Labour Electorate Committee.
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In 1977 John Terris was elected a member of the Lower Hutt City Council on the Labour Party ticket His wife was initially supposed to stand but after she had to withdraw her candidacy he filled her slot on the ticket.
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John Terris served as the chairman of the councils Management Resources committee and a member of the Dowse Art Gallery and Museum management committee.
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John Terris was the only Labour member re-elected to the council in 1980 and "topped the poll" in 1983 with more votes than any other candidate.
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John Terris lost in a ballot among fellow councillors to Teri Puketapu of the United Citizens ticket.
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John Terris was first elected as the member for Western Hutt in 1978.
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In May 1990 John Terris submitted a private members bill to force a binding referendum on the electoral system.
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John Terris's bill was defeated but a referendum eventually occurred in 1992.
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In January 1986, John Terris was convicted of drink-driving, something he told The Evening Post was "not a sensible thing to do".
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John Terris represented the Western Hutt electorate until 1990, when he was defeated by National's Joy McLauchlan, one of a number of losses contributing to the fall of the Fourth Labour Government.
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John Terris returned to broadcasting and was a talkback host for Radio Liberty.
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John Terris was briefly involved with establishing ACT New Zealand, a new party headed by former Labour MP Roger Douglas, but soon left the party.
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In March 1995 John Terris resigned his post with the church in Wanganui and returned to Lower Hutt.
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John Terris stood for Mayor of Lower Hutt at the 1995 local elections and was successful.
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John Terris served as mayor until 2004 when he was defeated by former councillor David Ogden.
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An ordained Anglican priest, John Terris spent his early working life in radio and television.
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John Terris published his autobiography Being Who You Are in 2004.
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John Terris's latest book, released in July 2014 and called September Showdown is a light-hearted look at the perils of a parliamentary career.
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John Terris has an interest in heritage issues and regularly contributes to the Radio New Zealand programme Sounds Historical.
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John Terris has produced a series of six video documentaries on local subjects called Village to City, as well as a series of six interviews with local Hutt people who lived through World War II, both of which he has donated to the Hutt City Libraries.
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John Terris became a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow in 2005.