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 .