George Washington Ewing

{{Short description|American politician (1808–1888)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = George Washington Ewing

| title=Representative to the Confederate Congress

| term_start=1861

| term_end=1865

| title2=Kentucky state legislature

| term_start2=1842

| term_end2=1844

| term_start3=1859

| term_end3=1863

|birth_date = {{birth date|1808|11|29}}

|birth_place = Adairville, Kentucky

| predecessor=office established

| successor=office abolished

|death_date = {{death date and age|1888|5|20|1808|11|29}}

|death_place = Logan County, Kentucky

}}

George Washington Ewing (November 29, 1808 – May 20, 1888) was an American Confederate politician from Kentucky. He was a Confederate delegate then representative during the Civil War.

Ewing was born in Adairville, Kentucky, and educated in the common schools of Logan County. He studied law, and after passing the bar exam, he became an attorney.

He served in the state legislature as representative from Logan County from 1842 to 1844, and again from 1859 to 1863.{{cite book |last1=Ewing |first1=Presley Kittredge |last2=Ewing |first2=Mary Ellen Williams |title=The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches: A Survey of the Ewings and Their Kin in America |date=1919 |publisher=Hurcules Print. & Book Company |isbn=978-0-608-31952-0 |page=83 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjsnAQAAIAAJ |access-date=28 February 2023 |language=en}}

He went on to represent the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress, the First Confederate Congress, and the Second Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1865.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

Ewing died near Adairville on May 20, 1888. He was buried in the old Red River Meeting House Cemetery in Logan County, Kentucky.