{{short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George Cash | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} | office1 = Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council | parliament1 = Western Australia | term_start1 = 22 May 1989 | term_end1 = 22 May 2009 | constituency1 = North Metropolitan | alongside1 = Berinson, Edwards, Piantadosi, Dermer, Travers, Giffard, Burton, Pike, MacLean, Davies, Lightfoot, Cadby, Evans, Halligan, Collier, Hodgson, Watson | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | office2 = Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly | parliament2 = Western Australia | term_start2 = 17 November 1984 | term_end2 = 22 May 1989 | constituency2 = Mount Lawley | predecessor2 = Ray O'Connor | successor2 = ''seat abolished'' | order = 14th | office = President of the Western Australian Legislative Council | parliament = Western Australia | premier = Richard Court | term_start = 27 May 1997 | term_end = 21 May 2001 | constituency = | predecessor = Clive Griffiths | successor = John Cowdell | birth_name = Samuel Ernest Cash | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1946|9|12}} | birth_place = Subiaco, Western Australia | party = Liberal Party | spouse = | profession = | children = 4 (including Michaelia Cash) | alma_mater = University of Western Australia | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Samuel Ernest''' "'''George'''" '''Cash''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}}<ref name=am/> (born 12 September 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia) is a former Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented Mount Lawley in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Legislative+Council+-+Current+Members |title=Extract from the Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook |year=2008 |accessdate=24 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908040945/http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/web/newwebparl.nsf/iframewebpages/Legislative+Council+-+Current+Members |archivedate=8 September 2008 }}</ref> and later was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, representing the North Metropolitan Region.
==Biography== Cash was awarded a Bachelor of Laws and then a Master of Laws at the University of Western Australia, later completing a Bachelor of Business. He worked as a business proprietor and a company director before entering parliament.
Prior to entering parliament, Cash was a City of Stirling councillor.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tate |first1=Lee |title=Former Premier Denies Being a Bond "Bag Man" |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/former-premier-denies-being-a-bond-bag-man-19920129-k4qfd |website=Australian Financial Review |access-date=12 March 2023 |date=29 January 1992}}</ref>
In 1984, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mount Lawley at a by-election resulting from the resignation from parliament of then premier Ray O'Connor. Cash was re-elected in 1986 but the seat was abolished in a redistribution in 1988. He then switched to the Western Australian Legislative Council and was elected in the 1989 state election under the new proportional system which came into effect for the council. He served 20 years in that chamber, including four years as President between 1997 and 2001, while Richard Court was Premier, and was for several years thereafter the deputy president. He announced his retirement before the 2008 election, and his term ended on 21 May 2009.
In 2010 Cash was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the Parliament of Western Australia, and to the community.<ref name=am>{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1141737|title=CASH, George: Member of the Order of Australia|work=It's an Honour|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|date= 26 January 2010|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref> He is the father of Western Australian Senator Michaelia Cash.
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-wa-la}} {{succession box | title=Member for Mount Lawley | before=Ray O'Connor | years=1984-1889 | after=''Constituency abolished''}} {{s-par|au-wa-lc}} {{succession box | title=Member for North Metropolitan | before=''Seat created'' | years=1989-2009 | after=''Seat abolished''}} {{s-bef|before=Clive Griffiths}} {{s-ttl|title=President of the<br>Western Australian Legislative Council|years=1997–2001}} {{s-aft|after=John Cowdell}} {{s-end}}
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