George Thomas Frampton Jr. (born August 24, 1944) is an American attorney, environmentalist, and government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.

He cowrote a book on Watergate and has authored newspaper columns on subjects including environmental issues and ballot access for independent candidates.

[2] The son of a legal scholar, Frampton was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in White Plains, New York, Belmont, Massachusetts, and Urbana, Illinois.

[10][11] In that position, he worked on the grand jury investigation and trial of President Richard M. Nixon’s top aides in the Watergate cover-up.

[16][17][18] From 1978 until 1985, Frampton was a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner, focusing on complex and public interest litigation.

[36][37] Frampton is a co-founder of the Partnership for Responsible Growth, a non-profit, along with former Congressman Walt Minnick and former Ambassador William Eacho.