Francis Bell (New Zealand Prime Minister)
Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, GCMG, KC (31 March 1851 – 13 March 1936) was the first New Zealand-born Prime Minister of New Zealand. Bell is one three New Zealand Prime Ministers of Jewish extraction, the others being Julius Vogel and current Prime Minister John Key.
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