{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2014}} thumb|Anderson in 1922 '''George James Anderson''' (1860 – 15 December 1935) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament, and a minister in the Reform Government from 1912 to 1928.
==Biography== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist = true}} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1908}} |end=1909 |term=17th |electorate={{NZ electorate link|Mataura}} |party=Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox allegiance |start=1909 |end=1911 |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1911}} |end=1914 |term=18th |electorate=Mataura |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1914}} |end=1919 |term=19th |electorate=Mataura |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1919}} |end=1922 |term=20th |electorate=Mataura |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1922}} |end=1925 |term=21st |electorate=Mataura |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1925}} |end=1928 |term=22nd |electorate=Mataura |party=Reform Party (New Zealand) }} {{End}} He won the Mataura electorate in Southland in the 1908 general election, defeating a government minister Robert McNab on his entry into politics. He held the seat until he was defeated in the 1928 general election.
He was Minister of Internal Affairs (1919–25), and Minister of Labour, Mines and Marine (1919–28).
He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1934 and served until he died in 1935.
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.<ref name="EP">{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | work=The Evening Post | access-date=2 July 2013 | page=4}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *[http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=3A16 Entry at ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography''] *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 }}
{{S-start}} {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before= Robert McNab}} {{s-ttl | title= Member of Parliament for Mataura | years= 1908–1928}} {{s-aft | after= David McDougall}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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