David Lange
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The Right Honourable David Russell Lange ONZ CH |
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Prime Minister David Lange, at the opening of the new Foxton Post Office, 1980s.
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| 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
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In office 26 July 1984 – 8 August 1989 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor-General |
David Beattie Paul Reeves |
| Deputy | Geoffrey Palmer |
| Preceded by | Robert Muldoon |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Palmer |
| 23rd Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 3 February 1983 – 26 July 1984 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Rowling |
| Succeeded by | Robert Muldoon |
| 26th Attorney-General | |
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In office 8 August 1989 – 2 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Geoffrey Palmer |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Palmer |
| Succeeded by | Paul East |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Mangere |
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In office 1977–1996 |
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| Preceded by | Colin Moyle |
| Succeeded by | Taito Phillip Field |
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4 August 1942 Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 13 August 2005 (aged 63) Middlemore, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Naomi Joy Crampton Margaret Pope |
| Children | 4 (three with Crampton) (one with Pope) |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Methodist |
David Russell Lange ONZ CH (/ˈlɒŋi/ LONG-ee; 4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) served as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history, but one which did not always conform to traditional expectations of a social-democratic party. He had a reputation for cutting wit (sometimes directed against himself) and eloquence. His government implemented far-reaching free-market reforms. Helen Clark described New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation as his legacy.
Lange was born on 4 August 1942 in Otahuhu, a small industrial borough since absorbed into Auckland. He was the oldest of four children of Roy Lange, a general practitioner and obstetrician and grandson of a German settler, and Phoebe Fysh Lange, who trained as a nurse in her native Tasmania before she migrated to New Zealand. The family had lived in New Zealand for so long that the original pronunciation of their surname, lan-ge, "had all but been forgotten"; Lange himself would pronounce it as long-ee. Lange's autobiography suggests that he admired his soft-spoken and dryly humorous father, while his demanding and sometimes overbearing mother tested his tolerance. His cousin Michael Bassett reflected that Roy "knew how to avoid trouble rather than confront it", and David developed a similar aversion to conflict.
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