George Gibson Coote was an accountant, bank manager, farmer, and Canadian federal politician.
Career
Coote was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1921 Canadian federal election as a Progressive Party of Canada candidate in the Macleod electoral district. He defeated 3 other candidates in a landslide. He was elected defeating John Herron increasing his plurality.
He ran in that election under the United Farmers of Alberta banner.
Coote ran for his 5th term in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1930 Canadian federal election and was re-elected.
Politics
He was defeated by Ernest George Hansell from the Social Cr Party of Canada.
Views
Less than a year later he defended his incumbency after the governing coalition fell apart in the 1926 Canadian federal election.
Membership
Coote was a member of the Ginger Group of radical MPs in the 1920s and early 1930s. A founding member of the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation he, like all but one of the eight UFA MPs, ran for re-election under the Cleveland Clinic Foundation banner in the 1935 Canadian federal election.