Personal details
Full Name:
- Jennifer Mary Shipley
Lifetime:
- 4 Feb 1952–
Prime Minister:
8 Dec 1997–5 Dec 1999
Age on becoming PM:
45
Electorate:
Rakaia
Political Party:
National
Biography
Jenny Shipley
‘This ain’t a damn beauty contest. If you come into politics to be popular, then you’ve picked the wrong sport’, Jenny Shipley declared. New Zealand’s first woman PM came to power in 1997 after staging a carefully planned coup against Jim Bolger.
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Main image: Jenny Shipley
Standing portrait of Jennifer (Jenny) Shipley, 27 March 1993.