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Jan 29, 1878 Preston, Georgia, Georgia, United States Died on 04 Aug 1957 (aged 79)
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About Walter F. George
- Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia.
- He was a long-time Democratic United States Senator and was President pro tempore of the United States Senate from 1955 to 1957. Born near Preston, Georgia, George practiced law after graduating from Mercer University.
- He served on the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1917 to 1922, resigning from the bench to successfully run for the Senate.
- A conservative Democrat, George opposed the 1932 presidential nomination of Franklin D.
- Roosevelt and much of Roosevelt's domestic policy, while supporting and leading implementation of the President's foreign policy.
- He served as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1941 to 1946 where George generally supported Roosevelt's handling of World War II.
- George also served as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1940-1941 and 1955-1957. Across his political career, George was generally viewed as a moderate on civil rights relative to other Southern U.S.
- Senators.
- Nevertheless, George opposed integration in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v.
- Board of Education, although George refused to publicly renounce Brown given his respect for the judiciary branch and its important role, a refusal that may have cost George reelection in the 1956 Senate race.By the end of his Senate career, George was one of the most powerful U.S.
- Senators, and well-regarded across both political parties and amongst liberals and conservatives.
- George was an early and leading champion of vocational education, a strict Constitutionalist who believed in limited federal government, fiscally conservative, and during the course of his Senate career transitioned from being a foreign isolationist to a fervent supporter of U.S.
- internationalism, including playing an important role in the Senate's 1945 approval of the United Nations' Charter.
- George retired from the Senate in 1957 and died later that same year.
- Reflecting the esteem with which George was held, 40 members of Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, attended his funeral in Vienna, Georgia, and President Eisenhower ordered flags at all U.S.
- federal buildings lowered to half-mast.
