George Burgess — may refer to:*George Farmer Burgess (1861 ndash;1919), U.S. Representative from Texas *George H. Burgess, ichthyologist and fisheries biologist *George Henry Burgess (1831 ndash;1905), British American artist *George Kimball Burgess (1874… … Wikipedia
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