Background
Young was born in 1925 in Turua on the Hauraki Plains. The son of Leslie Robert Young, he grew up in Cambridge and Blenheim, and attended Wellington College.
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Career
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.
He was associated with the temperance (prohibition) movement.
They had two sons. On 13 May 2012, Young died at the age of 86.
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Political Party
New Zealand Labour Party