Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon, GCMG, CH (25 September 1921 – 5 August 1992) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing National party.
Robert David Muldoon was born to lower-middle-class parents Jim and Amie Muldoon in Auckland in 1921.
At age five Muldoon slipped while playing on the front gate, damaging his cheek and resulting in a distinctive scar. At age eight, Muldoon's father was admitted to hospi...
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Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon, GCMG, CH (25 September 1921 – 5 August 1992) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing National party.
Robert David Muldoon was born to lower-middle-class parents Jim and Amie Muldoon in Auckland in 1921.
At age five Muldoon slipped while playing on the front gate, damaging his cheek and resulting in a distinctive scar. At age eight, Muldoon's father was admitted to hospital, where he died 20 years later. This left Muldoon's mother to raise him on her own. During this time Muldoon came under the strong formative influence of his fiercely intelligent, iron-willed maternal grandmother, Jerusha, a committed socialist. Though Muldoon never accepted her creed, he did develop under her influence a potent ambition, a consuming interest in politics, and an abiding respect for New Zealand's welfare state. A bright child, Muldoon won a scholarship to attend Mount Albert Grammar School from 1933 to 1936. He left school...
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