Kenneth Stuart Williams was a Reform Party

New Zealand Reform Party

The Reform Party, formally the New Zealand Political Reform League, was New Zealand's second major political party, having been founded as a conservative response to the original Liberal Party...

 Member of Parliament in New Zealand

New Zealand

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. He was Minister of Public Works from 1926 to 1928 in the Reform Government

Reform Government of New Zealand

The Reform Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand from 1912 to 1928. It is perhaps best remembered for its anti-trade union stance in the Waihi miners' strike of 1912 and a dockworkers' strike the following year...

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He won the Bay of Plenty

Bay of Plenty (New Zealand electorate)

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 electorate in a 1920 by-election after the death of the previous MP, William Donald Stuart MacDonald

William Donald Stuart MacDonald

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; and held it (being elected unopposed three times) until 1935. He had decided to retire in 1934 because of health problems from an accident, but died on 25 November 1935, just two days before the 1935 general election

New Zealand general election, 1935

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He was a grandson of the missionary Henry Williams

Henry Williams (missionary)

Henry Williams was one of the first missionaries who went to New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century....

 and of James Busby

James Busby

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