John Crawford Anderson ( 1848 – 12 November 1930) was a 19th-century
Member of Parliament in
Otago
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, New Zealand.
Anderson was born about 1848 at
Maori Kaik on
Otago Peninsula
The Otago Peninsula () is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. Volcanic in origin, it forms one wall of the eroded valley that now forms Otago Harbour. The peninsula lies south-east of Ot ...
, the son of
Archibald Anderson.
He represented the
Bruce
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electorate from to 1890, when he retired.
He unsuccessfully contested the Bruce electorate in the against the incumbent,
James Allen.
References
1840s births
1930 deaths
19th-century New Zealand politicians
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1899 New Zealand general election
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