Bill Schramm

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Frederick William Schramm (28 March 1886 – 28 October 1962) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was the eleventh Speaker of the House of Representatives, from 1944 to 1946.

Biography

Early life

Schramm was born in Hokitika in 1886. His Danish parents had arrived in New Zealand in the 1860s.[1] He received his education at Hokitika High School and at Canterbury College.[2] He was a prominent sports person in his younger years in athletics, cricket, and hockey,[3] and represented Canterbury College in the New Zealand University championships for two years.[4]

He married Alice Amelia Peard in 1918; they had two daughters. Schramm started his professional career as a clerk with the Justice Department and held positions in Whanganui and Te Kūiti before World War I, and Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland after the war.[3] He then became deputy-registrar and deputy-sheriff of the Auckland Supreme Court but resigned in 1922 to enter private practice.[5] He was a solicitor and barrister for the last nine years before his election to Parliament.[1]

Political career

Template:NZ parlbox header Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox footer In 1927 he stood unsuccessfully for the Auckland City Council on a Labour Party ticket.[6] Schramm was a member of the Auckland University College Council until his resignation in 1942.[7]

In the Template:NZ election link, he contested the Template:NZ electorate link electorate but came third.[8] He was the Member of Parliament for Auckland East from Template:NZ election link year to 1946; when he was defeated for the new electorate of Template:NZ electorate link.[9] Originally an ally of John A. Lee, they fell out and Schramm moved for Lee's expulsion at the 1940 Labour conference. Lee supported the National candidate Duncan Rae who defeated Schramm in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate in 1946.

In early 1947 he was a nominee for the Mount Albert by-election but was not selected as the candidate.[10] Soon afterwards Schramm, who was originally from Hokitika, was also speculated as a possible candidate at another by-election in Westland but suggestion of him seeking the candidacy was later dismissed.[11]

In November 1947 he was Labour's candidate for the Auckland mayoralty, placing second behind sitting mayor Sir John Allum.[12] Schramm wished to stand for the mayoralty again in 1950, but was beaten for the Labour nomination by former city councillor John Stewart.[13] In Template:NZ election link year he stood in Parnell once more and was again defeated. He was then President of the Auckland Labour Representation Committee from 1955 to 1957.[5]

Awards and death

In 1935, Schramm was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[14]

In August 1958 Schramm suffered a fall while on the sixth floor of Dilworth Buildings in Queen Street where he had an office. He broke his thigh bone and was admitted to Middlemore Hospital.[15] He died in Auckland in 1962[5] and was buried at Purewa Cemetery.[16]

Notes

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References

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  • Who’s Who in New Zealand, 4th Edition 1941
  • New Zealand Herald 1962, 30 October (death notice)
Political offices
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1944–1946 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Member of Parliament for Auckland East
1931–1946 Template:S-ttl/check 		Constituency abolished
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