George Parmlee Webster (June 24, 1828 – January 11, 1899) was an American lawyer and politician.
He was a descendant of Connecticut colonial governor John Webster through his father's side.
[2] In 1860, Webster was elected to the Kentucky Legislature as a Union Democrat, representing Campbell County.
In honor of the vote, a salute of 97 guns was fired from New York City Hall Park.
He was also the deciding vote to elect Garret Davis to the United States Senate from Kentucky.
President Lincoln then appointed and commissioned him assistant quartermaster in the Union Army with the rank of captain.
He served in the Assembly in 1890,[3] 1891,[4] 1892 (when he introduced bills that appropriated three million dollars for repaving the streets establish a pumping station, abolished the aqueduct commission, authorized the New York Central to build a bridge above the Harlem River, and authorized the consolidation of all street railways in New York City),[5] and 1893 (when, as chairman of the Committee on Affairs of Cities, introduced a number of bills, including to enlarge the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History, abolish the power of dock commissioners to issue bonds, keep New York City's water supply pure, provide for the consolidation of New York City and Brooklyn, remove New York City Hall from City Hall Park, establish a speedway along the Harlem River, settle wrongful assessments, remove the reservoir in Bryant Park, and appropriate $150,000 to convert Castle Garden into an aquarium.