George Henry Swan was a 19th century businessman and Member of Parliament in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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He was Mayor of Napier

Mayor of Napier, New Zealand

The Mayor of Napier is the head of the municipal government of Napier City, New Zealand, and presides over the Napier City Council. Napier City is New Zealand's ninth largest city. The first mayor was elected in 1875. The current mayor is Barbara Arnot....

 from 1885 to 1901; at that time, he had the longest continuous mayoralty in New Zealand.

He represented the Napier

Napier (New Zealand electorate)

thumb|right|Boundaries of Napier Electorate for 2008 and 2011 electionsNapier is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Napier is Chris Tremain, of the National Party. He has held this position since...

 electorate from 1890 to 1893, when he was defeated. Though described as “Independent”, he was really a “conservative”; although those opposed to the Liberals

New Zealand Liberal Party

The New Zealand Liberal Party is generally regarded as having been the first real political party in New Zealand. It governed from 1891 until 1912. Out of office, the Liberals gradually found themselves pressed between the conservative Reform Party and the growing Labour Party...

 had not yet formed the Reform Party

New Zealand Reform Party

The Reform Party, formally the New Zealand Political Reform League, was New Zealand's second major political party, having been founded as a conservative response to the original Liberal Party...

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He owned a brewery, and married an actress. He was a photographer.