Helen Clark
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Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950) is a New Zealand politician who served as New Zealand's 37th Prime Minister from 1999 to 2008 and was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017.
She was New Zealand's fifth-serving prime minister and the second woman to hold the office.
She began attending the University of Auckland in 1968 to study politics, and became involved in the New Zealand Labour Party.
After graduating, she taught political studies at the university.
Clark started running for local politics in Auckland in 1974, but was not elected to any position.
Following one unsuccessful attempt, she was elected to Parliament in 1981 as the representative for Mount Albert, an electorate she served in the Fourth Labour Government until 2009.Clark held several Cabinet positions in the Fourth Labour Government, including Minister of Housing, Minister of Health, and Minister of Conservation.
Early life
Clark, the eldest of four daughters of a farming family in Te Pahu, west of Hamilton, was the eldest of four daughters of a farming family. Margaret McMurray, a mother of Irish descent, was a primary school teacher. George, her father, was a farmer. Clark earned a Masters degree in 1974 from Te Pahu Primary School, Epsom Girls' Grammar School in Auckland, and the University of Auckland, where she majored in politics and graduated with a BA (Honours) degree. Her thesis emphasized rural political identity and representation. Clark, a teen, became politically active, protesting the Vietnam War and lobbying against foreign military bases in New Zealand.
Clark has been active in the New Zealand Labour Party for the bulk of her life. She represented Labour candidates on the Auckland City Council in 1971, three of whom were elected. She served for the Auckland City Council in 1974 and 1977, and she went back to the Auckland City Council herself in 1974 and 1977. Although generally winning a seat, she never gained a seat in the second round, losing out by only 105 votes.
Clark, a junior lecturer in political studies at the University of Auckland from 1973 to 1975. In 1974, she ran for the Auckland Central electorate but she was disqualified by Richard Prebble. She then voted for Piako, a National safe seat. Clark worked in Australia from 1976 to 1981 on a University Grants Committee post-graduate scholarship and then taught political studies at Auckland University and then lectured in political studies before starting her PhD (which she never completed) from 1977 to 1981. That election was won by her father, who voted in favour of National.
Clark served on Labour's national executive committee from 1978 to 1989, and then from April 1989. During her studies, she chaired the University of Auckland Princes Street Labour Party, becoming prominent alongside future Labour politicians including Richard Prebble, David Caygill, Margaret Wilson, and Richard Northey. Clark served as president of the Labour Youth Council, executive member of the party's Auckland Regional Council, secretary of the Labour Women's Council, and member of the Policy Council. She ran for the position of junior vice president in 1980 as a candidate. However, on the second day of the party conference, she endorsed her candidature, allowing union secretary Dan Duggan to be elected unopposed.
She represented the New Zealand Labour Party at the Congresses of the Socialist International and of the Socialist International Women in 1976, 1978, 1983, and 1986, as well as the Socialist International Party Leaders' Meeting in Sydney in 1991.
Personal life
Clark was raised as a Presbyterian and attended Sunday school every week. When she was Prime Minister, she described herself as an agnostic.
She married sociologist Peter Davis in 1981, just before she was elected to Parliament. Davis had been Clark's partner for five years, but the pressure from some Labour members to marry for political reasons had forced her to marry for political reasons, despite her personal doubts about marriage. Davis, a medical sociology professor and the University of Auckland's Chief of Methods and Policy Applications in the Social Sciences, is currently a researcher in medical sociology and was the head of COMPASS (Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences).
Clark, who was in an essay in an article for the book Head and Shoulders in 1984, was to recall that after the 1981 election, it was to note that "It was a difficult campaign." "I was really hammered as a single woman." "I was accused of being a lesbian, of being in a commune, meeting Trotskyites and gays," I said.
Clark referred to National MP Wyatt Creech as a "scumbag" and a "sleazeball" for raising the possibility of a conflict of interest involving Davis, who was leading an academic research group investigating government health reforms in March 2001.
Clark is a keen hiker and mountaineer. Clark and her husband were left stranded on the Two Thumb Range, a Southern Alps route, when their guide (and Clark's friend), Gottlieb Braun-Elwert, collapsed and died as a result of a suspected heart attack.