Thomas Kennedy Macdonald (6 April 1847 – 17 October 1914), known as Kennedy MacdonaldorKennedy Mac, was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand.
Macdonald was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France. He came to Wellington from Australia in July 1871.[1] Macdonald married Frances Rossiter on 15 November 1870 in Melbourne. They lost three sons within one month in 1876 during a scarlet fever epidemic.[1]
He represented the City of Wellington electorate from 1890 to 1891, when he resigned upon a bankruptcy claim.[6] He was in favour of a land tax and of more (rural) roads, and of ending the jobbery in dealing in native land.[7]
He contested the three-member City of Wellington electorate in the 1899 election, when he came fourth.[8] He considered standing in the Otaki by-election in January 1900, but the brother of the deceased incumbent consented to stand for the Liberal Party instead.[9] He was later appointed to the Legislative Council from 1903 to 1911.[6]
^Johnson, David (1996). "Members and Officers of the Wellington Harbour Board, Appendix 1". Wellington Harbour. Wellington Maritime Museum Trust. p. 475. ISBN0958349800.
^"Mayoral Elections". Feilding Star. Vol. XXI, no. 129. 30 November 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
^ abWilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 215. OCLC154283103.
