Education
George Washington University. College of Wooster.
George Washington University. College of Wooster.
He served four consecutive terms as the mayor of Warrenton, Virginia, for a total of 16 years, before retiring in June 2014. He ran in the 2005 Republican primary for the governorship of Virginia, a race which he lost to Jerry Kilgore. Having long had ties to Jamaica, Fitch was one of the co-founders of the Jamaican Bobsled Team for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
In 2007 he proposed that his city generate all of its energy from methane released from a nearby landfill.
In 2010 he authored the book A Pathway To Local Energy Independence
Fitch was born of a missionary family in Canton, China, during the Chinese Revolution. His father had served with the Office of Strategic Services behind the lines during the Japanese invasion and with Chenault"s Flying Tigers.
He wrote a book, My Eighty Years in China. George was raised in the Far East through to his first two years of college at the University of Singapore.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the College of Wooster, Ohio, and earned an Master of Business Administration in International Business from George Washington University.
George worked for many years as a Foreign and Commercial Service Officer with the United States. Department of Commerce. During the Reagan Administration, he was The Commerce Department"s chief implementation official for The Caribbean Basin Initiative, travelling to almost every Caribbean and Caribbean Rim nation, meeting with Finance and Trade officials, and, occasionally, heads of State. He spoke several languages.
Fitch died of cancer on December 30, 2014, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.
He was 66.