James Horn (politician)

Horn was born in Inverkethney, Banffshire, Scotland and came to Otago in 1879. He was a storekeeper at Bannockburn, Otago from 1883 to 1928, when he moved to Dunedin.^[1]

He won the Wakatipu electorate in the 1919 general election, and held it to 1928, when he retired.^[2] In parliament he supported construction of the Otago Central Railway to Clyde and then Cromwell, and the breaking-up of large estates.^[1] A bridge on what is now State Highway 6 over the Clutha River at Albert Town opened in 1930 and was named James Horn Bridge.^[3]

From 1920 until 1925 he was the Liberal Party's junior whip.^[4]

• Wilson, Jim (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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