George Taylor MacNutt was a Conservative

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was born in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia

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 and became a contractor and lumber merchant.

MacNutt attended public school in Nova Scotia, then Truro

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 Academy. He campaigned in the 1911 Nova Scotia provincial election

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 for a seat at Guysborough riding

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 but was not successful.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Colchester

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 riding in the 1925 general election

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. MacNutt was re-elected there in the 1926 election

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 then defeated by Martin Luther Urquhart

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 of the Liberal party

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 in the 1930 federal election

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