Kenneth Stuart Williams (13 September 1870 – 25 November 1935) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was Minister of Public Works from 1926 to 1928 in the Reform Government.
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Williams was born in Pakaraka in the Bay of Islands in 1870. His parents were John William Williams and Sarah Busby. He was a grandson of the missionary Henry Williams and of James Busby. He was educated at Heretaunga School in Hastings and Christ's College in Christchurch.[1]
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Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
1920–1922 | 20th | Bay of Plenty | Reform | |
1922–1925 | 21st | Bay of Plenty | Reform | |
1925–1928 | 22nd | Bay of Plenty | Reform | |
1928–1931 | 23rd | Bay of Plenty | Reform | |
1931–1935 | 24th | Bay of Plenty | Reform |
He won the Bay of Plenty electorate in a 1920 by-election[2] after the death of the previous MP, William Donald Stuart MacDonald;[3] and held it (being elected unopposed three times[1]) until 1935.[2] He was Minister of Public Works (12 June 1926 – 10 December 1928) in the Reform Government under Gordon Coates, and briefly Minister of Lands, and Commissioner of State Forests (28 November 1928 – 10 December 1928).[4]
In 1934, he had decided to retire at the end of the term because of health problems from an accident, but died on 25 November 1935 at a garden party held in his honour, just two days before the 1935 general election.[1]