Question: Which Conservative predecessor of current Macclesfield representative David Rutley resigned causing a 1939 by election?
Context: The 1998 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 3, 1998.  Incumbent Republican United States Senator Chuck Grassley sought re-election to a fourth term in the United States Senate, facing off against former State Representative David Osterberg, who won the Democratic nomination unopposed.  Grassley had not faced a competitive election since 1980; this year proved no different, and Grassley crushed Osterberg to win a fourth term. White County is a county located in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Georgia.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,144.  The county seat is Cleveland.  The county was created on December 22, 1857 from part of Habersham County and named for Newton County Representative David T. White, who helped a Habersham representative successfully attain passage of an act creating the new county. David Henry Rutley (born 7 March 1961) is a Conservative politician who is the member of parliament for Macclesfield.  He was first elected in 2010. The 40th Parliament of British Columbia was in session from June 26, 2013 to April 11, 2017.  It consisted of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, as elected by the general election of May 14, 2013, and The Queen represented by the Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon.  That election unexpectedly returned the BC Liberal Party to another absolute majority government, their fourth consecutive government since 2001, this time with Christy Clark who had been premier since 2011.  The BC New Democratic Party formed the official opposition under Adrian Dix and John Horgan who replaced Dix in the 2014 leadership election.  The first Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Green Party of BC, Andrew J. Weaver served in this parliament, along with independent Vicki Huntington.  Three MLAs resigned: Jenny Kwan and Douglas Horne who resigned to stand in a federal election, as well as Ben Stewart who resigned for the purpose of providing the Premier, who had lost her seat in the general election, with another opportunity to gain a seat.  The bylelections to replace the resigned members Clark won Stewart's Kelowna riding, while Melanie Mark and Jodie Wickens replaced Kwan and Horne, respectively.  The only members to leave their party, Marc Dalton briefly left the BC Liberals as he unsuccessfully sought the Conservative Party nomination in the federal election, and Pat Pimm left the BC Liberal Party just prior to being arrested. Jonathan George Caladine Lord (born 17 September 1962) is a British Conservative Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Woking at the 2010 and has since been re-elected at the 2015 and 2017 general elections.  He succeeded Humfrey Malins, his Conservative predecessor who stood down at that election. John Rumney Remer (2 July 1883 – 12 March 1948) was a British Conservative Party politician.  He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Macclesfield at the 1918 general election, and was re-elected at six further general elections.  He resigned from Parliament on 6 November 1939 by appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. The Macclesfield by-election of 1939 was held on 22 November 1939.  The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Remer.  It was won by the W. Garfield Weston. Macclesfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by David Rutley, a Conservative. Sămănătorul or Semănătorul (] , Romanian for "The Sower") was a literary and political magazine published in Romania between 1901 and 1910.  Founded by poets Alexandru Vlahuță and George Coșbuc, it is primarily remembered as a tribune for early 20th century traditionalism, neoromanticism and ethnic nationalism.  The magazine's ideology, commonly known as "Sămănătorism" or "Semănătorism", was articulated after 1905, when historian and literary theorist Nicolae Iorga became editor in chief.  While its populism, critique of capitalism and emphasis on peasant society separated it from other conservative groups, "Sămănătorul" shared views with its main conservative predecessor, the "Junimea" society, particularly in expressing reserve toward Westernization.  In parallel, its right-wing agenda made it stand in contrast to the Poporanists, a Romanian populist faction whose socialist-inspired ideology also opposed rapid urbanization, but there was a significant overlap in membership between the two groups.  "Sămănătorul"' s relationship with the dominant National Liberal Party was equally ambiguous, ranging from an alliance between "Sămănătorul" and National Liberal politician Spiru Haret to Iorga's explicit condemnation of 20th century Romanian liberalism. The 2004 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 2, 2004.  Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John Breaux decided to retire.  Republican U.S. Representative David Vitter won the jungle primary with 51% of the vote and avoided a runoff.
Answer: John Remer