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Ernest George Jansen PC (1881–1959) was the second-last Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, holding office from 1950 to 1959.Born in 7 August 1881, he graduated with a law degree from the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1905, and was admitted as an advocate (the South African equivalent of a barrister) in 1913.An ardent champion of Afrikaner interests, he joined the National Party in 1915 and was a member of Parliament from 1915 to 1920, from 1921 to 1943, and from 1947 to 1950.In 1919, he was a member of a delegation which tried unsuccessfully to persuade American president Woodrow Wilson to call for independence to be restored to the former Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.In Parliament, Jansen was Speaker of the House of Assembly from 1924 to 1929, Minister of Native Affairs and of Irrigation from 1929 to 1934, and Speaker again from 1934 to 1943.

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Jansen, Ernest George Ernest George Jansen

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south African politician

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1881-08-07Z

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1959-01-01Z

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Governor-General of the Union of South Africa

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8th

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