George W. Hooker (February 6, 1838 – August 6, 1902) was an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor.

[4] After the outbreak of the Civil War, Hooker enlisted as a private in Company F, Fourth Vermont Regiment in 1861.

[4] On September 14, 1862, General William T. H. Brooks ordered Hooker (who was a lieutenant at the time) to take four companies to take out a Confederate artillery position.

[3][4] In June 1864, Hooker was the adjutant-general for the First Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, in charge of nine regiments during the Battle of Cold Harbor.

Hooker received several serious wounds during the battle: he was shot five times, twice in the legs, twice in the body, once through the left shoulder, and one that shattered his collar bone, leaving the subclavian artery bare.

[5][6][2] After the war, Hooker went back to being a traveling salesman, this time for wholesale grocers Carr, Chase & Raymond.

Hooker was elected in 1879 and 1880 as department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Vermont, and received a third nomination to be re-elected, which he declined.