Even Ernest George (1 February 1875 – 1 June 1969) was an

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politician. He was the

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member for

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in the

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from 1930 to 1933. George was born at

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and educated locally, the son of a farmer who died when he was twelve. His first job was in an office in

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, after which he spent time working at

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, where he was involved in the union movement. He also spent three years on the

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n goldfields and two years in the pastoral areas of

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. However, he was a farmer for the most of his life, and by the 1920s, he had his own farm at North Booborowie. He was auditor of the

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, chairman of the local school committee, a member of the Spalding Repatriation Committee, president of the North Booborowie and Spalding local Labor committees and president of Labor's Burra Burra electorate committee. He was an unsuccessful Labor candidate for the House of Assembly in 1921 and the Legislative Council in 1924. George was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1930 election. He was expelled from the Labor Party in the 1931 Labor split, along with the entire Cabinet, for voting in support of the

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, and joined the splinter

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. He was a member of the select committee dealing with the insolvency of wheat firm Verco Bros and was the Assembly representative on the Farmers' Assistance Board. He contested the 1933 election for the PLP, but was defeated. He was readmitted to the Labor Party following the resolution of the split, but resigned in 1937 in protest at preselection rules and contested the 1938 election as an independent. He later rejoined the party and unsuccessfully contested his old seat for Labor at the 1950 election. His brother, Herbert George, was also a Labor MP in South Australia.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:George, Even 1875 births 1969 deaths Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Place of birth missing Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia