John Murray Rose (14 December 1939 – 5 August 2021) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Rose was born in

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in 1939. He received his education at Waitahuna Primary and

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. Afterwards, he was a farmer in

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in the

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, some from

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. He held roles with

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, the Presbyterian Church,

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, and the Lawrence Club. Rose married Christine Mary Fulton, the daughter of Bruce I. Fulton, on 22 October 1966. They had five daughters. He won the

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electorate in after the retirement of

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, but was defeated by

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in . He was one of four National Party incumbents from Otago and

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who lost their normally blue electorate to the Labour challenger over the proposed raising of the lake levels of lakes

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and

Te Anau Te Anau is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand. In Maori, Te-Anau means the Place of the Swirling Waters. It is on the eastern shore of Lake Te Anau in Fiordland. Te Anau is 155 kilometres north of Invercargill ...

, which was opposed by the

Save Manapouri campaign The Save Manapouri campaign was an environmental campaign waged between 1969 and 1972 in New Zealand to prevent the raising of the levels of lakes Manapouri and Te Anau as part of the construction of the Manapouri Power Project. Origins The ...

. Labour's election manifesto was for the lakes to remain at their natural levels. In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, Rose was awarded the

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for public services. In 1999, he was diagnosed with

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

. He published his autobiography, ''More Than Meets the Eye'', in 2010, with a reviewer commenting that the "political material is particularly interesting". Rose died in Dunedin on 5 August 2021.

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1939 births 2021 deaths New Zealand National Party MPs Politicians from Dunedin New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates Recipients of the Queen's Service Medal Unsuccessful candidates in the 1972 New Zealand general election People educated at John McGlashan College Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives People with Parkinson's disease {{NZNational-politician-stub