Albert Henry | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Albert_Henry_1969_(cropped).jpg) Henry in 1969 | |
| 1st Premier of the Cook Islands | |
| In office 4 August 1965 – 25 July 1978 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Deputy | Manea Tamarua Tiakana Numanga Apenera Short |
| Preceded by | Dick Charles Brown (Leader of Government Business) |
| Succeeded by | Tom Davis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 June 1906 Tutakimoa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
| Died | 1 January 1981 (aged 73) Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
| Political party | Cook Islands Party |
| Children | 4 |
| Profession | Politician |
Albert Royle Henry (11 June 1906 – 1 January 1981)[1] was the first Premier of the Cook Islands and the founder and first leader of the Cook Islands Party (CIP). First elected Premier in August 1965, he was unseated in the aftermath of the 1978 election after an electoral petition found he had committed electoral fraud. He was later stripped of his knighthood. In 2023 he was posthumously pardoned.
- ^ "Albert Henry dies". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 52, no. 2. 1 February 1981. pp. 73–74. Retrieved 19 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.