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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. He 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. He 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 conservatism]]. 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 conservatism]]. 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/> 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.

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.

 

He died on August 4, 1957 at the age of seventy-nine. 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.

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