George Read III (June 4, 1788 – November 1, 1836) was an American lawyer who served as the second U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware taking over for his father.
By the time his father turned ten, his grandfather was serving in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
George Read III married on 19 April 1810, Louisa Ridgeley Dorsey, whose family resided near Baltimore, Maryland, her father being Dr. Nathan Dorsey, a surgeon in the Continental Navy, who afterwards became an eminent physician in Philadelphia and an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Pennsylvania.
[5][6][7] After graduating in 1806 from Princeton University with honors, he studied law with his father, and was called to the bar in Delaware.He served as United States district attorney, during the administrations of three of Presidents.
George Read III died in his family's mansion, in New Castle, on November 1, 1837, the same night of his nomination to the United States Senate.