Julius Vogel
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The Right Honourable Sir Julius Vogel KCMG |
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| 8th Premier of New Zealand | |
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In office 8 April 1873 – 6 July 1875 15 February 1876 – 1 September 1876 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Governor |
James Fergusson George Phipps |
| Preceded by |
William Fox (1873) Daniel Pollen (1876) |
| Succeeded by |
Daniel Pollen (1875) Harry Atkinson (1876) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 February 1835 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 12 March 1899 (aged 64) Molesey, Surrey, England |
| Political party | None |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Clayton |
| Children | Four |
| Religion | Judaism |
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Sir Julius Vogel KCMG (24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other public works. He was the first Jewish prime minister of New Zealand. Historian Warwick R. Armstrong assesses Vogel's strengths and weaknesses:
Vogel's politics were like his nature, imaginative – and occasionally brilliant – but reckless and speculative. He was an excellent policymaker but he needed a strong leader to restrain him....Yet Vogel had vision. He saw New Zealand as a potential 'Britain of the South Seas', strong both in agriculture and in industry, and inhabited by a large and flourishing population.
Born in London, Vogel received his early education at University College School in Hampstead, London. He later studied chemistry and metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines (later part of Imperial College London). He emigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1852, being editor of several newspapers on the goldfields, including the Inglewood Advertiser and the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Victorian Parliament in the Avoca district in August 1861 (he lost to James Macpherson Grant and Benjamin George Davies), he moved to Otago in October 1861, where he became a journalist for the Otago Witness. In November 1861, he founded the Otago Daily Times and became its first editor.
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