John Andrew MacPherson

He unsuccessfully contested the Oamaru electorate in the 1899 election against the incumbent, Thomas Young Duncan.

The election was declared void, but MacPherson won the subsequent by-election.

MacPherson then held it until 1935, when he was defeated by Labour's Arnold Nordmeyer.

[4][5] In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

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