Trevor Young
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1968–1969 | 35th | Hutt | Labour | |
| 1969–1972 | 36th | Hutt | Labour | |
| 1972–1975 | 37th | Hutt | Labour | |
| 1975–1978 | 38th | Hutt | Labour | |
| 1978–1981 | 39th | Eastern Hutt | Labour | |
| 1981–1984 | 40th | Eastern Hutt | Labour | |
| 1984–1987 | 41st | Eastern Hutt | Labour | |
| 1987–1990 | 42nd | Eastern Hutt | Labour | |
Trevor James Young, QSO (28 August 1925 – 13 May 2012), was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Young was born in 1925 in Turua on the Hauraki Plains.[1] The son of Leslie Robert Young, he grew up in Cambridge and Blenheim,[2] and attended Wellington College.[1]
In 1947, Young became a Lower Hutt city councillor at the age of 22. He represented the electorate of Hutt (previously occupied by Labour Prime Minister Walter Nash) in Parliament from 1968 to 1978, and then the Eastern Hutt electorate from 1978 to 1990, when he was replaced by Paul Swain. In total he gave 43 years of service in local and national politics.[3]
He was associated with the temperance (prohibition) movement.
In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.[4]
He married Ailsa Hazel Anderson, the daughter of John James Anderson, on 28 August 1925. They had two sons.[1] On 13 May 2012, Young died at the age of 86.[2]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Hutt 1968–1978 |
Constituency abolished |
| Constituency established | Member of Parliament for Eastern Hutt 1978–1990 |
Succeeded by Paul Swain |
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