Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand politician)

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Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer (born 21 April 1942) is a New Zealand lawyer, political scientist and former politician, who served as the 33rd prime minister of New Zealand for a little over a year from August 1989 until September 1990. A member of Parliament from 1979 to 1990, he spent six years as a senior member of the Fourth Labour Government. The second New Zealand prime minister from Nelson, Palmer read political science and law at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka. Completing a doctorate at the University of Chicago Law School, he then taught law as a full professor at the University of Iowa College of Law from age 27. Upon returning to New Zealand, Palmer taught law in Wellington and became active in the Labour Party from 1975. He won election to the New Zealand House of Representatives in the 1979 by-election for Christchurch Central. As minister of justice from 1984 to 1989, Palmer was responsible for considerable reforms of the country's legal and constitutional...

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