John Murray Rose QSM (14 December 1939 – 5 August 2021) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
He received his education at Waitahuna Primary and John McGlashan College.
[1] He won the Otago Central electorate in 1969 after the retirement of Jack George, but was defeated by Labour's Ian Quigley in 1972.
[3] He was one of four National Party incumbents from Otago and Southland who lost their normally blue electorate to the Labour challenger over the proposed raising of the lake levels of lakes Manapouri and Te Anau, which was opposed by the Save Manapouri campaign.
[6] He published his autobiography, More Than Meets the Eye, in 2010, with a reviewer commenting that the "political material is particularly interesting".