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Albert Henry

1907–1981 · 20th century

Albert Henry was a Cook Islands politician, founder of the Cook Islands Party and the first premier from 1965, when the islands became self-governing in free association with New Zealand. In 1978 a court found that his party had flown in voters from New Zealand with public money, and he was removed from office. He was later stripped of his knighthood.

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