George Hatton Weems (September 27, 1891 – February 25, 1957) was a highly decorated officer in the United States Army with the rank of Brigadier General.

Weems served as Assistant Commandant of the Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia for the duration of the World War II and after the surrender of Nazi Germany, he was a U.S. Military Representative on Allied Control Commission for Hungary.

Following a graduation from the Waverly High School, Weems studied at the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee, before received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in May 1913.

[1][2] He was a member of the class which produced more than 55 future general officers, including two Army Chiefs of Staff – Joseph L. Collins and Matthew B. Ridgway.

Other classmates include: Clare H. Armstrong, Aaron Bradshaw Jr., Mark W. Clark, John T. Cole, Norman D. Cota, John M. Devine, William W. Eagles, Theodore L. Futch, Charles H. Gerhardt, Augustus M. Gurney, Ernest N. Harmon, William Kelly Harrison Jr., Robert W. Hasbrouck, Frederick A. Irving, Laurence B. Keiser, Charles S. Kilburn, Bryant E. Moore, Daniel Noce, Onslow S. Rolfe, Herbert N. Schwarzkopf, Albert C. Smith, George D. Wahl, and Raymond E. S.

[4] Weems graduated on April 20, 1917, with Bachelor of Science degree, shortly following the United States entry into World War I, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Infantry Branch.

[1][2] He arrived in France by the end of September 1917 and following a month of intensive training, Weems assumed command of regimental Machine gun company.

The Allies of the United States bestowed him with French Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with Gilt Star and Order of the Crown of Italy and Italian War Merit Cross.

He returned to the United States, was reverted to the peacetime rank of Captain and assumed duty as Commander of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Travis in Texas.

[1][2][3][6] Weems returned to the United States shortly before the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and assumed command of 22nd Infantry Regiment now at Fort Benning, Georgia.

[1][2][3] For his new billet, Weems was promoted to the temporary rank of Brigadier general on September 10, 1942, and was instrumental in training more than 60,000 young Second Lieutenants of Infantry, as well as thousands of officers and enlisted personnel, earning the nickname "Daddy of the Doughboys."