Arthur Faulkner

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Arthur James Faulkner (1921-1985) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

He stood unsuccessfully for the Franklin electorate in 1951 and the North Shore electorate in 1954. He then stood for and won the Roskill electorate in 1957, and held the seat to 1981, when he retired.

He was a Cabinet Minister, and was Minister of Defence from 1972 to 1974 in the Third Labour Government. He was President of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1978.

He married May Cox in 1945, and they had 2 sons and 3 daughters.

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• Petersen, G. C. (ed.) (1961), Who's Who in New Zealand (7th ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: A.H. & A.W. Reed 

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984, Wellington, [N.Z.]: Government Printer