George Burgess (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About George Burgess (Australian politician)
- George Arthur Burgess (2 November 1863 – 8 February 1941) was an Australian politician. He was born at Mara Creek to publican George Edward Burgess and Mary Grimley.
- He attended primary school until the age of twelve, after which he worked as a shearer and farmer in the Coonamble district.
- On 27 January 1896 he married Florence Clark, with whom he would have five children.
- An organiser and local secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1901 as the Labor member for Young.
- He moved to the seat of Burrangong in 1904 and remained on the Labor backbench until the conscription split of 1916, when, as a supporter of conscription, he followed Premier William Holman into the Nationalist Party.
- He lost his seat as a Nationalist candidate in 1917.
- Burgess died at Liverpool in 1941.
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