George Fuller (Australian politician)
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George Fuller was Premier of New South Wales on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than on day (20 December 1921); his second lasted from 13 April 1922 to 17 June 1925.
Born on 22 January 1861 in Kiama, New South Wales, George Warburton Fuller served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for almost forty consecutive years (1889-1928). In 1916 he became the leader of New South Wales' Nationalist Party; three years later he was knighted; and in 1921 he was asked to form a government when Labor's James Dooley could no longer continue in office. But Fuller himself had to give up the Premiership after only seven hours, and Dooley reclaimed it. In the 1922 state election, Dooley was defeated and Fuller became Premier once again. This time his tenure lasted till the 1925 state election, won by Labor's Jack Lang.
Shortly after Lang's victory, Fuller resigned from the Nationalist leadership in favour of Thomas Bavin. From 1928 to 1931 he was the state's Agent-General in London. He died in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, on 22 July 1940.
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