George Handley (9 February 1752 – 17 September 1793) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Georgia from 26 January 1788 to 7 January 1789, succeeding George Mathews and preceding George Walton.
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George Handley was born in Sheffield, England in 1752, and he settled in Savannah, Georgia in 1775 and served as a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served as Governor from 1788 to 1789 and drafted his state's constitution, and he died in 1793.