George Dawson (10 May 1961 – 7 May 2007) Was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician. Dawson was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim from November 2003 until his death in 2007, following a short battle with cancer. He was seen as a potential member of the power-sharing executive of the first minister, the DUP leader Ian Paisley, whose evangelical Protestant and strong unionist beliefs he shared.