George Morrison or Morison may refer to:
Politics and government
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George W. Morrison
George Washington Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Born in Fairlee, Vermont, Morrison attended the common schools and Thetford Academy. He engaged in teaching, then studied law, and ...
(1809–1888), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
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George S. Morrison (diplomat) (1830–1893), British diplomat
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George Ernest Morrison (1862–1920), Australian journalist and political adviser to China's first president
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George Morrison (British politician)
George Alexander Morrison (30 October 1869 – 8 September 1956) was a Scottish headmaster of Robert Gordon's College for 13 years and later a Liberal Party and then National Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Early life and teachin ...
(1869–1956), Liberal (then National Liberal) Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, 1934–45
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George M. Morrison
George McKay Morrison (born August 28, 1902) was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Cape Breton South (provincial electoral district), Cape Breton South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1937 to 1941 as a ...
(1902–?), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
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George Morrison (Northern Ireland politician)
George Morrison (23 November 1924 – 22 October 2014) was a unionist politician from Northern Ireland.
Early and personal life
Morrison was raised in Saintfield, having been "unofficially adopted" by the Kinghan family. He worked variously a ...
(1924–2014), member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Military
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George Morrison (British Army officer)
General George Morrison (1703 – 26 November 1799) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
Military career
Morrison joined the British Army as a gunner in 1722. He was involved in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1745 and as a result was se ...
(1703–1799), Quartermaster-General to the Forces
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George Stephen Morrison
George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 2008) was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison was commander of United States naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which sp ...
(1919–2008), American Navy officer and father of musician Jim Morrison
Arts and entertainment
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George Pitt Morison
George Pitt Morison (31 August 1861 – 4 September 1946) was an Australian painter and engraver. He is noted in particular for his painting ''The Foundation of Perth 1829'' which was commissioned as part of Western Australia's centenary celebr ...
(1861–1946), Australian painter and engraver
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Pete Morrison
George D. "Pete" Morrison (August 8, 1890 – February 5, 1973) was an American silent western film actor born in Westminster, Colorado. During his childhood he lived in Morrison, Colorado (named for his grandfather George Morrison) and Idaho S ...
(George D. Morrison, 1890–1973), silent film actor
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George Morrison (artist)
George Morrison (September 30, 1919 – April 17, 2000) was an Ojibwe landscape painter and sculptor from Minnesota. His Ojibwe name was Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo (Standing In the Northern Lights).
Morrison is associated with the individuali ...
(1919–2000), American artist
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George Morrison (documentary maker)
George Edward MorrisonPaul Levy, ‘FitzGibbon , Theodora (1916–1991)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 201/ref> (born 1922) is an Irish director of film documentaries. His works ...
(born 1922), Irish filmmaker
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George Morrison (acting teacher) (1928–2014), American acting teacher and director
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Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards.
As a teenager in t ...
(George Ivan Morrison, born 1945), Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Sports
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George Morrison (Australian footballer)
George Henry Morrison (1 February 1873 – 8 August 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
The son of the tailor, Robert William Morrison, and Margaret Jane Morrison (1 ...
(1873–1942), Australian rules footballer
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George Morrison (footballer, born 2005)
George William Morrison (born 2005) is a professional footballer who plays as a right midfielder or right winger for side Tamworth, on loan from club Fleetwood Town. Born in England, he plays for the Scotland U18 national team at Internatio ...
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George Morrison (cricketer)
George Charles Morrison ''HRUA'' (27 June 1915 – 11 October 1993) was an Irish first-class cricketer, teacher, and landscape artist. He was a founding member of the Ulster Watercolour Society in 1976, and was tutor to the Civil Service Ar ...
(1915–1993), Irish cricketer and artist
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George Morrison (ice hockey)
George Harold Morrison (December 24, 1948 – November 12, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 115 games in the National Hockey League with the St. Louis Blues from 1970 to 1972 and 361 games in the World Hockey Associa ...
(1948–2008), National Hockey League player
Other
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George S. Morison
George Shattuck Morison (December 19, 1842 – July 1, 1903) was an American attorney best known as a designer of bridges. He was trained to be a lawyer but instead became a civil engineer and leading bridge designer in North America in the late 1 ...
(1842–1903), American engineer and bridge designer
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George F. Morrison
George Francis Morrison (1867–1943), was an American business executive, industrialist, Edison Pioneer, and a Director and Vice President of General Electric Company. He was one of Thomas Edison's closest associates and a pioneer in the product ...
(1867–1943), American electric executive
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George Austin Morrison, Scottish-American merchant, banker and industrialist
See also
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George Morrison Reid Henry (1891–1983), Sri Lankan entomologist and ornithologist
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