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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Walter Franklin George
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| image=Walter George of GA.jpg
| image=Walter George of GA.jpg
[[File:Russell and George.png|thumb|left|270px|George (right) with [[Richard Russell, Jr.]] (left).]]
[[File:Russell and George.png|thumb|left|270px|George (right) with [[Richard Russell, Jr.]] (left).]]
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1941 to 1946, he also 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 also 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/>
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Democrats]]