William Phillips Endean was an New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 politician, first of the 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...

 then from 1935

New Zealand general election, 1935

The 1935 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 25th term. It resulted in the Labour Party's first electoral victory, with Michael Joseph Savage becoming the first Labour Prime Minister...

 the National Party

New Zealand National Party

The New Zealand National Party is the largest party in the New Zealand House of Representatives and in November 2008 formed a minority government with support from three minor parties.-Policies:...

.

Member of Parliament

Bill Endean represented the Auckland electorates of Parnell

Parnell (New Zealand electorate)

Parnell was a parliamentary electorate in the city of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1861 to 1954.The electorate was represented by ten Members of Parliament:* Reader Wood 1861–65 & 1870–78* Robert James Creighton 1865–66* Frederick Whitaker 1866–67...

 from 1930 to 1938, and then Remuera

Remuera (New Zealand electorate)

Remuera is a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, in the city of Auckland.-Population Centres:The electorate is urban, and comprises a number of Auckland suburbs. The area is high-income, and has been represented by a succession of National MPs....

 from 1938

New Zealand general election, 1938

The 1938 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 26th term. It resulted in the governing Labour Party being re-elected, although the newly-founded National Party gained a certain amount of ground.-Background:The Labour Party had won...

 to 1943, when he retired.

Independent

Endean was not renominated as National Party candidate in 1942; he was a close friend of Gordon Coates

Gordon Coates

Joseph Gordon Coates, MC and bar served as the 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928.- Early life :Born on the Hukatere Peninsula in Kaipara Harbour where his family ran a farm, Coates took on significant responsibility at a relatively early age because his father suffered from...

 (Wood, p. 90 & Wilson, p. 195; see Milne, pp. 140–1 on the 'win the war' group of Coates, Adam Hamilton

Adam Hamilton

Adam Hamilton was a New Zealand politician. He was the first leader of the National Party during its early years in Opposition.-Early life:...

, Jack Massey

John Norman Massey

John Norman Massey was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party and then the National Party.He represented the Franklin electorate from 1928 to 1935, when he was defeated by Arthur Sexton of the Country Party. He was re-elected in 1938, and held the seat for National, until he was deselected...

, Bert Kyle

Herbert Kyle

Herbert Seton Stewart Kyle was a Reform Party and from 1935 National Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was born in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.-Member of Parliament:...

 & Bill Endean).

He was appointed to the Legislative Council

New Zealand Legislative Council

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in 1950, as one of the suicide squad who voted to abolish it.