George Washington Covington
- George Washington Covington
George Washington Covington (September 12, 1838 – April 6, 1911) was an American politician.
Covington was born in Berlin, Maryland, and attended the common schools as a youth. He pursued a higher education at Buckingham Academy, and later at Harvard Law School. In 1861, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practiced in Berlin and Snow Hill, Maryland.
Covington served as a member of the State constitutional convention in 1867, and was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1885. During the forty-eighth Congress, Covington served as chairman of the Committee on Accounts. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1884, and resumed the practice of law in Snow Hill. He died in New York City in 1911, and is interred in All Hallows Cemetery in Snow Hill.
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