About Taite Te Tomo
Lived 1870 – 1939 (aged 68–69). Taite Te Tomo was a New Zealand politician.
Taite Te Tomo (1871 or 1872 – 22 May 1939) was a Māori and Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Te Tomo was probably born in 1871 or 1872 near Ōtaki.
He won the Western Maori electorate in a 1930 by-election after the death of Māui Pōmare, but lost it in 1935 to the Ratana candidate Toko Ratana.
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.
He was a member of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, and of the Board of Ethnological Research. He died at Kākāriki Pā on 22 May 1939.
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New Zealand politician
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Taite Te Tomo was born in 1870.
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Taite Te Tomo died on 22 May 1939.
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Taite Te Tomo was a politician.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Taite Te Tomo. https://biography.guide/taite-te-tomo/
MLA: "Taite Te Tomo." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/taite-te-tomo/.
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