George Lord Carter (1841 – 18 October 1891) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to dealer Robert Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Maria Bonn. He was a tailor and mercer who worked from George Street. On 26 March 1863 he married Mary Ann McCoy, with whom he had nine children. He served on

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from 1878 to 1884. On 1 November 1880 his candidacy for the seat of South Sydney in the

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was confirmed and at the election on 18 November 1880 he was elected. He was, however, defeated in 1882. Carter died in Sydney in 1891. In a pre-election speech on 4 November 1880, he expressed himself as a free-trader, but in favour of initial state-support for industries, as being against Chinese immigration to the colony, and for the speedy extension of the railways. On 29 November 1882, he argued his case for re-election to the seat of South Sydney, in a meeting at the Victoria Park Hotel, stating that he had honoured his pledges.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, George 1841 births 1891 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians