George Laffer

He was a minister in the Barwell government, and was Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1927 until 1930.

[1] Laffer was born at Coromandel Valley into a fruit-growing family, his father having emigrated from Cornwall in 1840.

He was chairman of committees from 1918 to 1920, and was promoted to the ministry when Henry Barwell became Premier, serving as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration and Minister for Repatriation until the government's defeat in 1924.

Laffer was appointed Speaker after the Liberal Federation, in coalition with the Country Party, won the election of 1927 under Richard Layton Butler, serving until their defeat in 1930.

He died suddenly in office in 1933, and received a state funeral before being buried at Mitcham Anglican Cemetery.