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| term_start=November 22, 1922

| term_start=November 22, 1922

| term_ end=January 3, 1957

| term_ end=January 3, 1957

| preceded=Rebecca Latimer Felton<br> (interim for Thomas E. Watson)]

| preceded=Rebecca Latimer Felton<br> (interim for Thomas E. "Tom" Watson)]

| succeeded=[[Herman Talmadge]]

| succeeded=[[Herman Talmadge]]

| office2=President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate

| office2=President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate

George was born to sharecroppers near [[rural]] Preston in Webster County, just west of Americus, Georgia. He graduated in 1900 from [[Mercer University]] in Macon, Georgia. After competing law school in 1901, he launched his private practice of law. From 1917 to 1922, he was a justice on the Georgia Supreme Court but resigned to run for the U.S. Senate. Considered a [[Conservative Democrat]], he still supported most of the domestic and foreign policies of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Exceptions to this support was his neutrality in the 1932 Democratic nomination contest and five years later his strong opposition to FDR's "court packing" plan. In 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] appointed a commission to "study" a renewal of Roosevelt's "court packing" plan, which would have allowed up to fifteen justices if each member over the age of seventy did not then retire from the bench<ref>Luther Harmon Zeigler, "Senator Walter George's 1938 Campaign," ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly'' (Vol. 43; issue 4), pp.333-352.</ref>  

George was born to sharecroppers near [[rural]] Preston in Webster County, just west of Americus, Georgia. He graduated in 1900 from [[Mercer University]] in Macon, Georgia. After competing law school in 1901, he launched his private practice of law. From 1917 to 1922, he was a justice on the Georgia Supreme Court but resigned to run for the U.S. Senate. Considered a [[Conservative Democrat]], he still supported most of the domestic and foreign policies of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Exceptions to this support was his neutrality in the 1932 Democratic nomination contest and five years later his strong opposition to FDR's "court packing" plan. In 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] appointed a commission to "study" a renewal of Roosevelt's "court packing" plan, which would have allowed up to fifteen justices if each member over the age of seventy did not then retire from the bench<ref>Luther Harmon Zeigler, "Senator Walter George's 1938 Campaign," ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly'' (Vol. 43; issue 4), pp.333-352.</ref>  

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1941 to 1946, he supported FDR's policies during [[World War II]].  Twice for brief periods. he was the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Considered a somewhat racial moderate, he nevertheless signed the [[Southern Manifesto]], which voiced House and Senate opposition to the 1954 [[United States Supreme Court]] legal opinion, ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]],'' a decree that outlawed school [[segregation]] in the South. George still declined to renounce ''Brown'' publicly.<ref name=jhc>James H. Cockfield, ''A Giant From Georgia: The Life of U.S. Senator Walter F. George, 1878-1957,'' (Macon, Georgia:Mercer University Press, 2019), pp. 452-453, isbn=978-0-88146-676-8, pages=452–453.</ref> He was succeeded by former [[Governor]] [[Herman Talmadge]], who served four Senate terms until his own defeat in the 1980 [[general election]] by the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mack Mattingly]].

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1941 to 1946, he supported FDR's policies during [[World War II]].  Twice for brief periods. he was the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Considered a somewhat racial moderate, he nevertheless signed the [[Southern Manifesto]], which voiced House and Senate opposition to the 1954 [[United States Supreme Court]] legal opinion, ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]],'' a decree that outlawed school [[segregation]] in the South. George still declined to renounce ''Brown'' publicly.<ref name=jhc>James H. Cockfield, ''A Giant From Georgia: The Life of U.S. Senator Walter F. George, 1878-1957,'' (Macon, Georgia:Mercer University Press, 2019), pp. 452-453, isbn=978-0-88146-676-8, pages=452–453.</ref> He was succeeded by former [[Governor]] [[Herman Talmadge]], who served four Senate terms until his own defeat in the 1980 [[general election]] by the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Mack Mattingly]].

George was highly regarded in both political parties and by [[liberal]]s and [[conservative]]s. He is also remember for his support of vocational education and fiscal conservatismc Formerly an [[isolationist]] in foreign entanglements, he became with the war a supporter of FDR's branch of [[internationalism]]. He worked for adoption of the [[United Nations]] Charter in 1945.<ref name=jhc/>

George was highly regarded in both political parties and by [[liberal]]s and [[conservative]]s. He is also remember for his support of vocational education and fiscal conservatismc Formerly an [[isolationist]] in foreign entanglements, he became with the war a supporter of FDR's branch of [[internationalism]]. He worked for adoption of the [[United Nations]] Charter in 1945.<ref name=jhc/>

Senate Majority Leader [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of Texas attended George's funeral in Vienna, Georgia. President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] named George as special ambassador to the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]]  in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]], a post that he filled for only six months because of serious illness. Eisenhower ordered flags at all U.S. federal buildings lowered to half-mast in George's memory.

Senate Majority Leader [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of Texas attended George's funeral in Vienna, Georgia. President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] named George as special ambassador to the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]]  in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]], a post that he filled for only six months because of serious illness. Eisenhower ordered flags at all U.S. federal buildings lowered to half-mast in George's memory.