Gordon Coates
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Joseph Gordon Coates served as the 21st prime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. He was the third successive Reform prime minister since 1912.
Coates in 1931
Captain J. Gordon Coates photograph (1920)
Coates in 1926
Coates (Back row second left) at the 1926 Imperial Conference
Joseph Ward
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Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant figure in the Liberal
Gordon Coates
…an independent candidate aligned with the Liberal Party. In Parliament he generally voted with the Liberals, and formed part of the group that allowed Joseph Ward to keep his position as prime minister. When Ward resigned and Thomas Mackenzie replaced him, Coates declined the offer of a ministerial position…
c. 1906
Ward and his family, around 1905
The Seddon Ministry in 1900. Ward is second from the right in the bottom row.
A portrait of Ward by Sir William Orpen