George Walton

       

                             
                George Walton studied law in Savannah and was admitted in the Bar in the year 1774. He was elected secretary in the Georgia provincial Congress; however, he was made president of the Council of Safety. He joined General Robert Howe, during the battle of Savannah which was when Georgia was captured by the British. On 1787, Walton, was Delegate of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention. In October 1789 he was appointed Governor of Georgia but lasted only two months. He was the first governor of Georgia to be appointed after it was admitted into statehood.  Walton served as judge of the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit, in 1789. Serving for the University of Georgia and the Richmond Academy he was trustee.