James Horn | |
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Wakatipu |
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In office 1919–1928 |
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Preceded by | William Fraser |
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Born | 1855 Banffshire, Scotland |
Died | 1932 New Zealand |
Political party | Liberal |
James Horn (1855–1932) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Otago, New Zealand.
Horn was born in Banffshire, Scotland and came to Otago in 1879. He was a storekeeper at Bannockburn, Otago from 1883 to 1928, when he moved to Dunedin.
He won the Wakatipu electorate in the 1919 general election, and held it to 1928, when he retired. In parliament he supported construction of the Otago Central Railway to Clyde and then Cromwell, and the breaking-up of large estates.