Geoff Thompson (politician)

Geoffrey William Fleetwood Thompson CNZM (born 1940) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Member of Parliament

New Zealand Parliament
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1978–1981	39th	Horowhenua			National
1981–1984	40th	Horowhenua			National

Thompson represented the Horowhenua electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1978 to 1984.^[1] He was a parliamentary under-secretary between 1981 and 1984.^[2]

Thompson was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal for services to New Zealand.^[3] He was a lawyer on the Kapiti Coast.

He served as the National Party president from 1994 to 1998. In the 1999 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to politics.^[4]

^ Wilson & Wood
^ see Wilson for the various posts he held
^ Taylor, p.365
^ "New Year honours list 1999". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1998. Retrieved 31 August 2019.

Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Wood, G. Anthony, ed. (1996). Ministers and Members: In the New Zealand Parliament. Dunedin: Otago University Press. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Honoured by the Queen-New Zealand: 1953 to 1993 by Alister Taylor (1994, Who's Who Aotearoa, Auckland)

New Zealand Parliament
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Horowhenua 1978–1984	Succeeded by Annette King
Party political offices
Preceded by Lindsay Tisch	President of the National Party 1994–1998	Succeeded by John Slater

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