George Potter (28 November 1883 – 10 December 1945) was an Australian politician who was a Nationalist Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1922 to 1928, representing West Province. Potter was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Ellen (née Thomson) and John Potter. He attended James Gillespie's High School and Heriot-Watt College, and then joined the British Army, serving in the Boer War. Potter emigrated to Western Australia in 1909, to farm wheat at

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. He re-entered the military on the outbreak of the First World War, joining the Australian Imperial Force. In August 1915, while fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign, Potter was wounded in action. He was subsequently repatriated to Australia, and worked at a military hospital in

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until his discharge in February 1917. After the war's end, Potter worked as a hospital secretary. He was elected to parliament in 1922, defeating a sitting Labor member,

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, in West Province. He held his seat for a single six-year term before being defeated by Labor's

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at the 1928 election. After leaving parliament, Potter worked as a business agent until his sudden death in 1945, aged 62. He collapsed in an elevator at the Perth GPO, and was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival."COLLAPSED IN LIFT."
'' The West Australian'', 11 December 1945.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, George 1883 births 1945 deaths Alumni of Heriot-Watt University Australian Army officers Australian military personnel of World War I British Army personnel of the Second Boer War Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia People educated at James Gillespie's High School Military personnel from Glasgow Scottish emigrants to Australia 20th-century Australian politicians