Facts: - party: independent labour -lrb- previous -rrb- - deputy: penny hulse - predecessor: office created barry curtis - birth date: 1 october 1956 - majority: 65,945 14,777 - profession: lawyer - spouse: shirley inglis - office: mayor of auckland mayor of manukau city - term end: 31 october 2010 - name: len brown - website: -lsb- http://www.lenbrownformayor.co.nz/ www.lenbrownformayor.co.nz -rsb- - birth place: taumarunui , new zealand - successor: office abolished - alma mater: university of auckland - children: 3 - term start: 1 november 2010 october 2007 - image: len brown.jpg - religion: roman catholicism Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of len brown .
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leonard '' len '' brown -lrb- born in taumarunui -rrb- is the mayor of auckland in new zealand and the head of the auckland council .he won the 2010 auckland mayoral election on 9 october 2010 and was sworn in as the mayor of auckland on 1 november 2010 , being the first to hold that title for the amalgamated ' auckland super city ' , and was re-elected in 2013 .brown had previously been elected mayor of manukau city in october 2007 , the second time he ran for that office .brown is married to shirley anne '' shan '' inglis , and has three daughters : samantha , olivia and victoria .they live in totara heights , a suburb of manukau .