George A. Slater

George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 – February 23, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

On June 2, 1891, Slater married Eva Elizabeth Sours (died 1950), and continued the practice of law in Port Chester, his wife's hometown.

In November 1918, he was elected Surrogate of Westchester County, and was re-elected in 1924, 1930 and 1936; remaining in office from 1919 until his death in 1937.

Slater died on February 23, 1937, in Moore County Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, of appendicitis; and was buried in Rye, New York.

Democrat William J. Sheils, whom he had defeated at the election in November 1936, was appointed by Gov.