George Leeke
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George Leeke was an Irish nationalist politician
Politician
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Leeke owned a hotel
Hotel
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 and fishery
Fishery
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. He was elected to Londonderry County Council for the Nationalist Party
Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)
The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP....

. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1921, Leeke was elected in the Londonderry
Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
Londonderry was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned five MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:...

 seat, although he did not take his seat until 1926. In 1929
Northern Ireland general election, 1929
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 his seat was abolished, and he instead won the Mid Londonderry
Mid Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
Mid Londonderry was a county constituency comprising the central part of County Londonderry. It was created in 1929, when the House of Commons Act 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland...

 seat, which he held until his death in 1939. He was active in the Ancient Order of Hibernians
Ancient Order of Hibernians
The Ancient Order of Hibernians is an Irish Catholic fraternal organization. Members must be Catholic and either Irish born or of Irish descent. Its largest membership is now in the United States, where it was founded in New York City in 1836...

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