{"id":21021,"date":"2026-05-21T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21021"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:15:15","slug":"the-founders-george-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21021","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: George Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Walton <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChaos is the law of nature. Order is the dream of man.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Walton was a Founding Father of the United States. He was orphaned young and was apprenticed to an uncle as a carpenter. Against his uncles wishes he was self educated and eventually became a lawyer, in Savannah. He soon became involved in Georgia State politics. He was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and was present to vote for and later sign the Declaration of Independence. He never owned slaves and on occasion spoke out against slavery. He was a political enemy of Button Gwinnett. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

My meager research found no quotes from George Walton on any issue. He served in the army during the battle of Savannah was injured and held in the British stockade in Sunbury (where my good friend Gene had a beautiful house for many years.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He receives a C on the Simon Signers Familiarity Index. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Walton \u201cChaos is the law of nature. Order is the dream of man.\u201d Henry Adams George Walton was a Founding Father of the United States. He was orphaned young and was apprenticed to an uncle as a carpenter. Against his uncles wishes he was self educated and eventually became a lawyer, in Savannah. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543],"tags":[1559,1541,1589,1590],"class_list":["post-21021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","tag-founders","tag-founding-fathers","tag-george-walton","tag-georgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-06-at-9.28.34-AM.png?fit=1144%2C1418&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5t3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21023,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021\/revisions\/21023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}