Tame Parata

Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Tame Parata (c. 1837 – 6 March 1917), also known as Thomas Pratt, was a Māori and a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

New Zealand Parliament

Years	Term	Electorate		Party
Template:By-election link year–1887	9th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1890	10th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1893	11th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1896	12th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1899	13th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1902	14th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1905	15th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1908	16th	Southern Maori
Template:NZ election link year–1911	17th	Southern Maori

Parata was born on Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait. His father was a Captain Trapp, a whaler from Massachusetts, and his mother was Koroteke of the Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Waitaha iwi (tribes). It is said that Tame reversed his father's name to Pratt, and transliterated it to Parata in Māori.

He won the Southern Maori electorate in the 1885 by-election after the resignation of Hōri Kerei Taiaroa, and held it to 1911, when he retired; he was succeeded in the electorate by his youngest son, Taare Parata. Subsequently, on 13 June 1912 Parata Sr was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council, where he sat until he died on 6 March 1917. Hekia Parata, a former member of Parliament, is his great-great-granddaughter. New Zealand academic and playwright John Broughton is his great-grandson.

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