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James Edward FitzGerald and Thomas Spencer Forsaith are regarded by some historians as having headed up Governments from the dates 14 June 1854 to 2 August 1854 and 31 August 1854 to 2 September 1854 respectively. However neither held the post of Colonial Secretary which normally denoted the Head of Government back then, and both of them served prior to the introduction of "responsible self government" thus most historians regard Sewell as the first Premier (or Head of Government). The terms Premier and Prime Minister were both used from 1869 to the turn of the century but Premier was the more common and official title of the Head of Government. Richard John Seddon in 1899 started to use the title Prime Minister almost exclusively and his successor in 1906 William Hall-Jones was the first person to be officially appointed to such a position. Start
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