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George Walton 1741?-1804, American Revolutionary patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. near Farmville, Va. He moved to Savannah, Ga., where he established a law practice. Walton was a delegate to the Continental Congress (1776-78, 1780-81). He was captured by the British at the fall of Savannah (1778) but was exchanged in 1779 and later was governor of Georgia (1779-80, 1789) and served briefly as U.S. Senator (1795-96).

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Walton, Izaak

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Walton, Izaak (1593–1683) English biographer and writer. His lives of Donne (1640), Sir Henry Wotton (1651), Richard Hooker (1665), George Herbert (1670), and Bishop Sanderson (1678) are the first truly biographical works in English literature. His most famous work is The Compleat Angler (1653).

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