Rudy Bambridge

Rudolf Tanahe Bambridge (28 February 1926 - 1982) was a French Polynesian lawyer and politician, who led the anti-independence Tahitian Union during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the son of politician Tony Bambridge. He campaigned against independence in the 1958 French Polynesian constitutional referendum, and served as prosecutor in Oopa's subsequent arson trial. and again at the 1967 election. He resigned his seat in the Assembly in March 1969 to take up a position on the French Economic and Social Council. In July 1971 he resigned as president of the UT-UDR in favour of Gaston Flosse. He subsequently retired from political life.