George R. Gallagher (April 10, 1915 – February 4, 2007) was a judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Gallagher was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved with his mother and four siblings to the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the 1920s.
Before and after World War II he worked at the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division, serving in the United States Army during the war.
[3] In 1952, Gallagher became general counsel of the Subversive Activities Control Board.
He entered private practice in 1959 and worked as an advance man for the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.