GEORGE B. FITCH

''This article is about the businessman and politician. For the author, see George Fitch.''
'George B. Fitch' is a business consultant and Republican politician. He is the mayor of Warrenton, Virginia and ran in the 2005 Republican primary for the governorship of Virginia, a race which he lost to Jerry Kilgore. Having long had ties to Jamaica, Fitch created the Jamaican Bobsled Team for the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Determined to achieve what most dismissed as impossible, George’s success inspired the Disney film Cool Runnings. In 2007 he proposed that his city generate all of its energy from methane released from a nearby landfill.Somashekhar, Sandhya. "Grand-Thinking Va. Mayor Seeks Town's Energy Independence." ''Washington Post''. March 12, 2007.
George was born of a missionary family in Canton, China during the Communist revolution. His father had served with the OSS behind the lines during the Japanese invasion and with Chenault's Flying Tigers. His grandfather, who came to China in 1906 to follow his father as a missionary, was the Provost in Nanking during the Rape of Nanking. He wrote a book, "My Eighty Years in China." George was raised in the Far East through his first two years of college at the University of Singapore. He graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the College of Wooster, Ohio, and earned an MBA in International Business from George Washington University. He speaks several languages.

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