Talk:Henry Jackson (surveyor)

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Did you know... that Henry Jackson served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of any New Zealand member of parliament?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Evrik (talk) 03:36, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Jackson in naval uniform (1860s)

... that Henry Jackson (pictured) served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of a New Zealand member of parliament? Source: Shortest serving member of Parliament: Henry Jackson; MP 2 July 1879 – 15 August 1879 (MP for 44 days)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1982 World's Fair
- Comment: We currently have an MP (got sworn in on 2 August 2022) who has a good chance of beating this record!

5x expanded by Schwede66 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:58, 11 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

A fine expansion. Hook is interesting and sourced appropriately, no copyvio concerns, image is obviously out of copyright. I'm afraid I'm not too up on NZ politics except I'd rather live somewhere where someone like this runs the country instead of someone like this. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 20:25, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]