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[[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).]]
George opposed anti-lynching legislation, joining Southern senators [[Richard Russell, Jr.]], Tom Connally, and [[Claude Pepper]] in filibustering such in 1937.<ref>[phttps://www.loc.gov/item/2016872930/ Filibuster against anti-lynching bill. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Members of the bloc of Southern Senators who have been filibusting against the anti-lynching bill for the last 20 days and are still going strong, left to right: Senator Tom Connaly, of Texas, Sen. Walter F. George, of Ga.; Sen. Richard Russell of Ga.; and Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, 1/27/38]. ''Library of Congress''. Retrieved April 21, 2021.</ref>
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.