George C.:
. . . was an American politician and Attorney at law from the
state of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a
member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1963 to 1969.
A native of Fredericksburg, George grew up in Ashland. He
graduated from Randolph-Macon College with a Bachelor of Arts
degree, and received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of
Virginia School of Law in 1947. That year, he moved back to
Fredericksburg and opened his own law firm. In 1951, he made an
unsuccessful run for Commonwealth's Attorney of Spotsylvania
County. In 1963, he ran for the Virginia House of Delegates and
won. He served until 1969. While a Delegate, he quickly gained a
reputation as one of the leading liberals in the state and a major
supporter of civil and political rights for African-Americans and
the rights of organized labor.
In 1966, he made his first run for federal office, seeking to
challenge Congressman Howard W. Smith, a thirteen-term incumbent
who had been in office since the Hoover administration, for
renomination. Smith — a member of the Byrd Organization, the
state's seemingly all-powerful political machine — was the
chairman of the House Rules Committee and, as an avid
segregationist and white supremacist, had used his position for
years to block civil rights legislation. In the July 12 primary,
George, drawing on the support of black voters who had only
recently been enfranchised by the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
defeated Smith by a vote of 27,115 to 26,470, a margin of just 645
votes. The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star declared his victory to
be "the upset of the century." In the general election, however, he
lost to Republican nominee William L. Scott, who received the
support of most of Smith's primary voters, by a vote of 50,782 to
37,929, a nearly 15% margin.
In 1970, George, now retired from the House of Delegates, made
his final run for elective office, seeking the Democratic
nomination for the United States Senate. The seat was held by
Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., the son of the Byrd Organization's late
founder and boss, who had decided to change his party affiliation
from Democratic to Independent after refusing to sign a loyalty
oath that pledged him to support all party nominees for office. In
the Democratic primary, George narrowly placed first with 58,874
votes (45.65%) over State Senator Clive L. DuVal II, a fellow
liberal, who collected 58,174 votes (45.11%). Although DuVal was
entitled to ask for a runoff, he declined to do so, and George
became the Democratic nominee. In the general election, he placed
second with 294,582 votes (31%), compared to 506,237 votes (54%)
for Senator Byrd. Republican nominee Ray Garland placed third with
144,765 votes (15%).
Following the election, George returned to his law practice, but
did not leave politics entirely. In 1972, he joined his friend and
ally Henry Howell, a former Democratic State Senator who had been
elected as Lieutenant Governor as an Independent in a 1971 special
election, as well as supporters of Democratic presidential
candidate George McGovern, to attempt to purge the official
machinery of the Democratic Party of the last vestiges of the Byrd
Organization. As a result of these activities, George was elected
as a member of the Democratic National Committee (a post he held
until 1980) and as chairman of the Eighth District Democratic
Committee (which he remained until 1993). The next year, Howell ran
for Governor of Virginia as an Independent without a Democratic
opponent and with the support of the party organization.
In 1975, George and his wife, Rosalie, divorced after George
came out to her as gay. After moving to Fairfax County with his new
partner, he continued to practice law until 2000, when he was
caught embezzling from a client's account. He pled guilty and
received a suspended sentence of five years.
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