After Parliament
In 1970, a bitter dispute saw Cracknell lose the Social Credit Party's leadership to the more confrontational John O'Brien. Cracknell had little involvement in politics after that, and did not attempt to regain his seat.
He was born in Auckland in 1912, and died in Kawakawa in 1989 aged 77 years.
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