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    Joseph Gordon Coates MC* PC (3 February 1878 – 27 May 1943) served as the 21st prime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. He was the third successive...
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    hosted a nightly news discussion TV program on the network, Laura Coates Live. Coates was born on July 11, 1979, in Hartford, Connecticut, but was raised...
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    This is a summary of the electoral history of Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925–28), Leader of the Reform Party (1925–36), Member of...
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    the party. The election was won by Kaipara MP and cabinet minister Gordon Coates. After an inconclusive result at the 1922 election, the Reform Party...
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    minister Gordon Coates served de facto as acting prime minister, especially during Forbes' extended stays in Britain. In July 1933, Coates appointed...
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  • 1925) but declined his party's offer of the job on a permanent basis. Gordon Coates was then appointed from 30 May 1925, and held the position until 10...
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    questioned Forbes about an interview given by Gordon Coates to the San Francisco Chronicle. It was Coates who had reportedly told the newspaper that New...
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    minister Gordon Coates served as de facto acting prime minister, especially during Forbes' extended stays in Britain. In July 1933, Coates appointed...
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    elector was made compulsory for all those eligible (except Māori). Gordon Coates continued as Prime Minister, with his Reform Party winning an outright...
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    minister Gordon Coates served as de facto acting prime minister, especially during Forbes' extended stays in Britain. In July 1933, Coates appointed...
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    The area was called Fernielea until 1926, when it was renamed after Gordon Coates, the Prime Minister at the time. Mincher is a garden of national significance...
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    Royal Mint, but work on the design was halted by Gordon Coates in early September 1934. In November, Coates alerted the Royal Mint of issues taken with the...
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    minister and was replaced by Gordon Coates. After giving up his portfolios in 1926, he returned to the League of Nations with Coates. In 1935, he was awarded...
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    left to right: Walter Stanley Monroe, Prime Minister of Newfoundland; Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia;...
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    The government was led by George Forbes of the United Party, with Gordon Coates of Reform as Minister of Finance. Prime Ministers of the United–Reform...
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    monarch in New Zealand) were his New Zealand ministers. Prime Minister Gordon Coates, who led the New Zealand delegation to the conference, called the Balfour...
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  • period under interim leader Francis Bell, Reform chose Gordon Coates as its new leader. Coates, while not regarded as politically astute, was relatively...
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    Martha Houghton Hepburn, American suffragist (d. 1951) February 3 – Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1943) February 4 – Grigory Petrovsky...
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    Imperial Conference. Standing (left to right): W.S. Monroe (Newfoundland), Gordon Coates (New Zealand), Stanley Bruce (Australia), J. B. M. Hertzog (Union of...
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  • Coates is an English and Scottish surname. One origin is a locational name from any of several places in England, such as Coates in Cambridgeshire or Cotes...
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    publicity for rail travel. The following year, Gordon Coates became the Minister of Railways. Coates was an ambitious politician who had an almost "religious...
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    point that makes bird dog work possible. Gordon Setters, also known as "black and tans", have a coal-black coat with distinctive markings of a rich chestnut...
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    United Party. Many commentators at the time, however, alleged that Gordon Coates, leader of the larger Reform Party, had the greater influence. The 24th...
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  • the Liberal Party. In the 1911 election, Stallworthy was beaten by Gordon Coates, who was Prime Minister from 1925 to 1928, and who held the electorate...
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    Dan Sullivan, Minister of Supply; Fred Jones, Minister of Defence; Gordon Coates, Minister of Armed Forces and War Co-ordination. Historically most ministers...
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    Hon Gordon Coates, Prime Minister. The last Prime Minister to live there. Further extensions were made to the building in 1926 when Gordon Coates lived...
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    Farewell Wardley: 30 July 1924. Sir Henry Coward: 24 March 1926. Joseph Gordon Coates: 30 November 1926. James Ramsay MacDonald: 4 December 1929. John George...
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    currency. In January 1933, Minister of Finance and former Prime Minister Gordon Coates devalued the New Zealand pound by 14 per cent against the British pound...
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    House in the Reform Party. He had a particularly good relationship with Gordon Coates, who became Prime Minister in 1925 and later Princess Te Puea of Waikato...
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    'boring'. However as Coates had entered cabinet at the same time as Nosworthy and in recognition that he had stood for the leadership, Coates thought it would...
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