ジョージ・ローリングス | |
|---|---|
| スポットシルバニア、スタッフォード、フレデリックスバーグ選出バージニア州下院議員 | |
| 在任期間: 1964年1月8日~1970年1月14日 | |
| 先行 | フランシス・B・グールドマン(スポットシルバニアおよびフレデリックスバーグの代表)スタンリー・A・オーウェンズ(スタッフォードの代表) |
| 後継者 | ベンジャミン・H・ウッドブリッジ |
| 個人情報 | |
| 生まれる | (1921-11-07)1921年11月7日 |
| 死亡 | 2009年4月22日(2009-04-22)(享年87歳) フレデリックスバーグ、バージニア州、米国 |
| パーティー | 民主的な |
| 配偶者 | ロザリー・サンダース |
| 母校 | ランドルフ・メイコン大学( BA )バージニア大学( LL.B. ) |
ジョージ・チャンセラー・ローリングス・ジュニア(1921年11月7日 - 2009年4月22日)は、バージニア州出身のアメリカの政治家、弁護士であった。民主党員であり、1963年から1969年までバージニア州下院議員を務めた。
バージニア州フレデリックスバーグ生まれのローリングスは、アッシュランドで育った。ランドルフ・メイコン大学で文学士号を取得し、 1947年にバージニア大学法学部で法学士号を取得した。同年、フレデリックスバーグに戻り、自身の法律事務所を開設した。[ 1 ]
1951年、ローリングスはスポットシルバニア郡の州検事に立候補したが落選した。1963年、彼はバージニア州下院議員に立候補して当選した。民主党予備選挙では、複数期務めた現職のフランシス・B・グールドマン(人種差別を支持することで知られる)を2対1の差で破り、 [ 2 ]さらに57.6%の得票率で共和党候補のライランド・H・ヘフリンを破った。[ 3 ]ローリングスは2度再選され、1969年までその職を務めた。下院議員時代には、まだ保守派民主党が多数を占めていた議会において、リベラル派の指導的立場にあるとの評判をすぐに得た。彼は、アフリカ系アメリカ人の公民権と政治的権利、そして労働者の権利の主要な支持者であった。
In 1966, Rawlings first ran for federal office, challenging Congressman Howard W. Smith, a powerful eighteen-term incumbent and Byrd Organization stalwart who had been in office since the Hoover administration, in the Democratic primary. As chairman of the House Rules Committee as well as a segregationist, Smith had used his position for years to block civil rights legislation. Rawlings, 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.[4]
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star declared his victory "the upset of the century." In the general election, however, Rawlings 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.[5]
In 1970, Rawlings, now retired from the House of Delegates, sought the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, challenging Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., the son of the Byrd Organization's late founder and boss. After the Democratic defeats in the 1969 general election, the younger Byrd changed his party affiliation from Democratic to independent and refused to sign a loyalty oath that pledged him to support all Democratic nominees for office. In that Democratic primary, Rawlings narrowly placed first with 58,874 votes (45.65%) over fellow liberal State SenatorClive L. DuVal II, who collected 58,174 votes (45.11%).[6] Although DuVal was entitled to ask for a runoff, he declined to do so, and Rawlings became the Democratic nominee. In the general election, however, Rawlings secured only 294,582 votes (31%), compared to 506,237 votes (54%) for Senator Byrd. Republican Ray L. Garland placed third with 144,765 votes (15%).[7]
Rawlings then 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, Rawlings 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.[1]
In 1975, Rawlings and his wife, Rosalie, divorced after Rawlings came out to her as gay.[1] After moving to Fairfax County with his new partner, he continued to practice law.
In 2000, he was caught embezzling from a client's account. He pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence of five years.[8] He died on April 22, 2009, at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg.[9]