George Henry Gause, Jr. (died in 1986) was a mortician and politician from Florida.
[5] Gause's father was a naval architect and had a funeral home in Wilmington, North Carolina before moving to Florida for health reasons.
[8] There is a George H. Gause Elementary school located in Bartow, Florida, while two streets are named after him.
The Martin Luther King Day celebration in Bartow honors him in its name.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Polk County Public Schools Hall of Fame.