Jeffrey William Whittaker (born 1940) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party.
[1] From 2005 onwards Whittaker became the last living member of the old Havelock North Borough Council.
He represented the electorate of Hastings in Parliament from 1990 to 1993, when he chose not to stand for re-election and returned to his prior occupation of pharmacist.
Whittaker has stated that his time in sitting on Parliamentary Select Committees was mostly unproductive due to his belief that, "The bureaucrats tend to run everything and to penetrate the bureaucratic morass is nigh on impossible.
"[4] Since he retired at the 1993 election Whittaker returned to Havelock North running a post office, vineyard and pharmacy.