George Harold Smith (1866 – 21 April 1936) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
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Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
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1916–1919 | 19th | Pahiatua | Reform |
Smith was born at Masterton in 1866,[1] the son of Major J. Valentine Smith.[2]
Smith unsuccessfully contested the Pahiatua electorate in the 1899 election against the incumbent, John O'Meara, of the Liberal Party.[3]
He won the Pahiatua electorate in a 1916 by-election after the death of the previous MP, James Escott, and retired in 1919.[4]
Notes
edit- ^ Scholefield 1940, p. 310.
- ^ Scholefield 1940, p. 312.
- ^ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 139.
References
edit- Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1940). A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda (PDF). Vol. II. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.