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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWalter Franklin GEORGE
(1878-1957)
Senate Years of Service:
1922-1957Party: DemocratGEORGE, Walter Franklin, a
Senator from Georgia; born on a farm near Preston, Webster County,
Ga., January 29, 1878; attended the common schools; graduated from
Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1900 and from its law department
in 1901; admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in
Vienna, Ga.; solicitor general of the Cordele judicial circuit
1907-1912 and judge of the superior court 1912-1917; judge of the
State court of appeals from January to October 1917, when he
resigned; associate justice of the State supreme court 1917-1922,
when he resigned; elected on November 7, 1922, as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Thomas E. Watson; reelected in 1926, 1932, 1938, 1944, and again in
1950 and served from November 22, 1922, to January 3, 1957; was not
a candidate for renomination in 1956; served as President pro
tempore of the Senate during the Eighty-fourth Congress; chairman,
Committee on Privileges and Elections (Seventy-third through
Seventy-sixth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations
(Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, and Eighty-fourth Congresses),
Committee on Finance (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth
Congresses and Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), Joint
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-first and
Eighty-second Congresses), Select Committee on Case Influence
(Eighty-fourth Congress), Special Committee on Foreign Assistance
(Eighty-fourth Congress); President Dwight Eisenhower’s
special ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until
his death; died in Vienna, Ga., August 4, 1957; interment in Vienna
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine.
“Walter George.” In Senators From Georgia.
Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976: 230-39; Zeigler, Luther.
“Senator Walter George’s 1938 Campaign.”
Georgia Historical Quarterly 43 (December 1959): 333-52;
Fleissner, James P. “August 11, 1938: A Day in the Life of
Senator Walter F. George.” Journal of Southern Legal
History 9 (2001): 55-101.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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