“Georgia Senator” Walter F. George Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“Georgia Senator” Walter F. George Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Walter Franklin George
(January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of
Georgia
. He was a longtime
Democratic
United States Senator
from 1922 to 1957 and was
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
from 1955 to 1957. Born near
Preston, Georgia
, George practiced law after graduating from
Mercer University
. He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He served on the
Supreme Court of Georgia
from 1917 to 1922, resigning from the bench to successfully run for the Senate. Philosophically a conservative Democrat, George refrained from endorsing the
1932 presidential
nomination of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
and openly objected to the President's 1937 court packing plan. However, despite his philosophical views, George supported much of Roosevelt's domestic policy and led the implementation of the President's foreign policy. He served as Chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee
from 1941 to 1946 in which he generally supported Roosevelt's handling of
World War II
. George also served as Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
from 1940 to 1941 and 1955 to 1957. Throughout his political career, George was generally viewed as more moderate on civil rights than other Southern U.S. Senators. Nevertheless, George opposed integration in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in
Brown v. Board of Education
, and, in the
Southern Manifesto
, which he not only signed, but formally presented to the Senate, condemned
Brown v. Board of Education
as the “unwarranted decision of the Supreme Court . . . [that] is now bearing fruit always produced when men substitute naked power for established law.” By the end of his Senate career, George was one of the most powerful U.S. Senators and was well-regarded by both political parties and by liberals and conservatives. George was an early and leading champion of vocational education, a strict constitutionalist who believed in limited federal government, a fiscal conservative. During the course of his Senate career, he transitioned from being a foreign isolationist to a fervent supporter of internationalism, including playing an important role in the Senate's 1945 approval of the
United Nations Charter
. George retired from the Senate in 1957 and died later that same year. Reflecting the esteem with which George was held, 40 members of Congress, including Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson
, attended his funeral in
Vienna, Georgia
, and President
Dwight Eisenhower
ordered flags at all U.S. federal buildings lowered to half-mast.