Jon Mayson
New Zealand shipping executive and former politician who was a co-leader of the Values Party in the 1980s (b 1945)
About Jon Mayson
Born 1945. Jon Mayson is a politician.
Jonathan Irving Mayson (born 1945) is a New Zealand shipping executive and former politician who was a co-leader of the Values Party in the 1980s.
Biography Mayson was born in 1945 in Oamaru. Growing up in Whanganui and Dannevirke, his parents were Christian pacifists who he credits as instilling him with a social conscience. Aged 16 he became a sea cadet with the Union Steam Ship Company. In 1972 he got a job as a stevedore in Tauranga beginning a lifetime career in waterfront operations.
He opposed the Vietnam War and sporting contact with apartheid era South Africa, leading him to join the Values Party upon its foundation in 1972, later becoming a co-leader of the party in the 1980s.
Personal life In 2005 he was diagnosed with colon cancer and began chemotherapy treatment.
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