Thomas Kennedy Macdonald, known as Kennedy Macdonald or Kennedy Mac, was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand.
12 Facts About Kennedy Macdonald
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Kennedy Macdonald came to Wellington from Australia in July 1871.
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Kennedy Macdonald was a founding member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1882.
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Kennedy Macdonald served for seven years as Government representative on the Wellington Harbour Board including 2 years as its chairman.
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Kennedy Macdonald was a Wellington City Councillor from 1877 to 1878.
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Kennedy Macdonald represented the City of Wellington electorate from 1890 to 1891, when he resigned upon a bankruptcy claim.
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Kennedy Macdonald was in favour of a land tax and of more roads, and of ending the jobbery in dealing in native land.
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Kennedy Macdonald contested the three-member City of Wellington electorate in the 1899 election, when he came fourth.
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Kennedy Macdonald considered standing in the Otaki by-election in January 1900, but the brother of the deceased incumbent consented to stand for the Liberal Party instead.
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Kennedy Macdonald was later appointed to the Legislative Council from 1903 to 1911.
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Kennedy Macdonald died on 17 October 1914 at the Porirua Lunatic Asylum where he had resided since November 1913.
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The Kennedy Macdonald family is buried at Bolton Street Memorial Park, and their grave is part of the memorial trail.