Sir Robert David "Rob" Muldoon (25 September 19215 August 1992) served as the
31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, as leader of the governing
National Party. Muldoon had been a Minister of Finance (a portfolio he also held while Prime Minister) and prominent member of the National Party and MP for the
Tamaki electorate in Auckland prior to becoming party leader in 1974.