Orlando J. George Jr. (December 14, 1945 – May 27, 2024) was an American academic administrator and politician. He served as a Democratic member for the 1st district of the

Delaware House of Representatives The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal number of constituencies, each of whom is ...

Life and career

George was born in

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is the List of municipalities in Delaware, most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North America. It lie ...

. He attended the

University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a Statutory college#Delaware, privately governed, state-assisted Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, United States. UD offers f ...

. George served in the

from 1974 to 1995. George was president of

Delaware Technical Community College Delaware Technical Community College (previously Delaware Technical & Community College, also known as DTCC, Delaware Tech, or Del Tech) is a public college, public community college in the U.S. state of Delaware. Delaware Tech is an open admis ...

from 1995 to 2014. George died on May 27, 2024, at the age of 78.

References

1945 births 2024 deaths Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware Democratic Party members of the Delaware House of Representatives Speakers of the Delaware House of Representatives University of Delaware alumni Heads of universities and colleges in the United States American academic administrators 20th-century members of the Delaware General Assembly {{US-academic-administrator-20C-stub