Arthur Ernest Armstrong

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for the American Methodist bishop see Arthur James Armstrong

Arthur Ernest (Tommy) Armstrong (1902–1980) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was the son of Hubert Thomas (Timmy) Armstrong.

He represented the Napier electorate from the 1943 general election, when he defeated Bill Barnard who had left the Labour Party to join John A. Lee’s Democratic Labour Party. In 1951 he was defeated by National’s Peter Tait. He later (in the 1966 election) stood as an independent against Mabel Howard in the Sydenham seat.

He also served on the Christchurch City Council on two separate occasions (1929-1935, and 1962-1965)

[edit] Further reading

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 (4th ed.), Wellington: Government Printer 

• Wood, G. Antony (ed.) (1996), Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament, Dunedin: Otago University Press