George Nesbitt (185913 December 1948) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at

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to John Nesbitt, a Master in Poor Law, and Rebecca, ''née'' Gregory. He arrived in

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in 1885 and worked for a

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softgoods firm as a traveller to the North Coast from 1887 to 1895. In 1895, he settled in Lismore and opened a general store; also, in that year he married Adina Morgan. He was active in various retailers' and commercial travellers' associations throughout the 1890s and 1900s and was an alderman and mayor at Lismore from 1906 to 1907. In 1913, he was elected to the

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as the Liberal member for Lismore; with the introduction of

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he became one of the members for

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. He left the Assembly in 1925 but in 1927 was appointed to the

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, serving until 1940. Nesbitt died at Cremorne in 1948.

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