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

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

| succeeded=[[Herman Talmadge]]

| succeeded=[[Herman Talmadge]]

| office2=President Pro Tempore of the<br> United States Senate

| office2=[[President pro tempore]] of the<br> United States Senate

| term_start2=January 5, 1955

| term_start2=January 5, 1955

| term_end2=January 3, 1957

| term_end2=January 3, 1957

| alma_mater=Mercer University<br>Mercer Law School<br> (Macon, Georgia)}}

| alma_mater=Mercer University<br>Mercer Law School<br> (Macon, Georgia)}}

'''Walter Franklin George''' (January 29, 1878 &ndash; August 4, 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773691/walter-franklin-george|title=Walter Franklin George|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 1, 2021}}</ref> was a [[United States Senator]] from [[Georgia]] from 1922 until 1957. He declined to seek reelection in 1956 and died five months after leaving the Senate. During his last two years in office, he was the Senate President Pro Tempore, the longest-serving senator in the majority party.  

'''Walter Franklin George''' (January 29, 1878 &ndash; August 4, 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773691/walter-franklin-george|title=Walter Franklin George|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 1, 2021}}</ref> was a [[United States Senator]] from [[Georgia]] from 1922 until 1957. He declined to seek reelection in 1956 and died five months after leaving the Senate. During his last two years in office, he was the Senate [[President pro tempore]], the longest-serving senator in the majority party.  

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 at Mercer 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 at Mercer 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>