Leading New Zealand
Week 3, Day 5 (Bonus Activity)
Name of Prime Minister: Jenny Shipley
Date of Birth: 4 February 1952 (age 65)
Political Party: National
Number of Years as Prime Minister: 3 years from 1997 to 1999.
Three interesting facts about my chosen Prime Minister:
- 36 Prime Minister of New Zealand. She was not elected prime minister in a general election.
- She became Prime minister when her party voted her in when Jim Bolger resigned as prime minister.
- She was born in Gore and grow up in Christchurch then became a teacher before politics.
