George Sellars | |
Birth Date: | 28 December 1890 |
Birth Place: | Bonavista, Newfoundland |
Death Place: | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
Assembly: | Newfoundland and Labrador House of |
Constituency Am: | Labrador South |
Term Start: | 1956 |
Term End: | October 24, 1961 |
Successor: | Gerald I. Hill |
Party: | Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador |
Children: | 3 |
George Sellars (December 28, 1890 – October 24, 1961) was a Canadian politician who was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 1956 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Labrador South as a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador until his death in office in 1961.[1]
Sellars was born in Bonavista, Newfoundland in 1890. He resided in his hometown and worked as a wireless operator and as a co-operative and commercial business manager for a decade. Sellers also worked for the Canadian National Railway for 40 years and was a justice of the peace. He married Elizabeth Taylor in 1916 and had three children. Sellars died of a heart attack while still in office, on October 24, 1961.[2]