Personal details
Full Name:
- John Ballance
Lifetime:
- 27 Mar 1839–27 Apr 1893
Premier:
24 Jan 1891–27 Apr 1893
Age on becoming Premier:
51
Electorate:
Wanganui
Political Party:
Liberal
Biography
John Ballance
John Ballance, who led the Liberals to power in 1890, was called ‘the rainmaker’ by voters relieved to see the return of prosperity.
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27 April 1893Death of Premier John BallanceBallance was the first Liberal premier. He laid the foundation for a government that was widely seen as making New Zealand ‘the social laboratory of the world’. Read more...
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John Ballance (1839–1893) became Colonial Treasurer in 1878, and in 1884 he became Native Minister in the Stout–Vogel ministry.