About George Harold Smith
Lived 1866 – 1936 (aged 69–70). George Harold Smith was a New Zealand politician.
George Harold Smith (1866 – 21 April 1936) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Smith was born at Masterton in 1866, the son of Major J. Valentine Smith.
Smith unsuccessfully contested the Pahiatua electorate in the against the incumbent, John O'Meara, of the Liberal Party.
He won the Pahiatua electorate in a 1916 by-election after the death of the previous MP, James Escott, and retired in 1919.
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New Zealand politician
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George Harold Smith was born in 1866.
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George Harold Smith died in 1936.
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