George Jeger

Abstract is: George Jeger (19 March 1903 – 6 January 1971) was a British Labour Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1945 to 1950 (which after his term became a safe seat for the Conservatives until they lost it to the Liberal Democrats in 1997), and achieving candidature for a more promising majority seat was immediately after elected as the MP for Goole from 1950, which he held until his death in 1971. He previously worked as a bank official and a freelance journalist, and served as a member of Shoreditch Borough Council from 1926 to 1940, and as Mayor of Shoreditch from 1937 to 1938. He was the brother of Santo Jeger, brother-in-law of Lena Jeger, and father of Jenny Jeger.