Logan Francis Sloane (8 August 1918 – 8 January 1980) was a New Zealand politician of the
National Party.
Biography
Sloane was born in Omana, near
Dargaville in 1918. He was the son of J. H. Sloane. He received his education at Dargaville District High School. In 1945, he married Jean Nesbit Warne, the daughter of J. L. Warne. They had one son and one daughter. Sloane participated in various sports and represented various areas in rugby and cricket. He served with the New Zealand Engineers from 1940 to 1945.
Sloane was the director of the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company (1955–1960). He was active with the
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RSA) and was president of a local district for three years. As vice-president of the Northland district, he served in the dominion executive.
He represented the seat of
Hobson in
Northland from to 1966, and from to 1975, when he retired. In 1961, he was one of ten national members of Parliament to vote with the Opposition and remove
capital punishment
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for murder from the Crimes Bill that the
Second National Government had introduced.
In the
1966 election,
Vernon Cracknell
Vernon Francis Cracknell (30 May 1912 – 4 June 1989) was a New Zealand politician. He served as the Social Credit Party's third leader (1963–1970).
Early life
Cracknell was born in Auckland on 30 May 1912. He was educated at Auckland Gramm ...
, an accountant, who had come second in the previous two elections narrowly defeated Sloane, the incumbent (again,
Labour
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** Manual labour, physical work
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was third). Cracknell was the first representative in Parliament of the
Social Credit Party. However, as Cracknell did not prove a good performer in Parliament, and Social Credit ran a poor
1969
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campaign, Sloane regained his seat with a substantial margin after three years and Social Credit lost its only MP.
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1918 births
1980 deaths
New Zealand National Party MPs
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1966 New Zealand general election
People from Dargaville
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
New Zealand military personnel of World War II