George Russell Barker was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada.
He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1917 to 1921 sitting with the Conservative caucus in opposition.
Barker ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1913 general election at the Conservative candidate in the Lac Ste.
He was defeated by Liberal incumbent Peter Gunn in a hotly contested straight fight, losing by only 43 votes.
[4] Barker did not run for another term at dissolution of the Legislature at dissolution in 1921, but tried to win his seat back in the 1926 Alberta general election; he was defeated, however, finishing a distant second in the three-way race to Charles McKeen.