جورج بيل تيمرمان الابن

بعد عودته إلى ولاية كارولاينا الجنوبية عقب الحرب، ترشح تيمرمان لمنصب نائب الحاكم عن الحزب الديمقراطي عام 1946 على نفس قائمة المرشحين مع زميله المحارب القديم ستروم ثورموند . وانتُخب لفترة ولاية بدأت عام 1947، وأُعيد انتخابه عام 1950 لفترة ولاية أخرى مدتها أربع سنوات.

خلال فترة ولايته، عارض تيمرمان قرار المحكمة العليا عام ١٩٥٤ الذي أعلن عدم دستورية المدارس العامة المنفصلة عنصريًا. وقد ناضل ضد التغييرات التي أحدثها القرار، في محاولة للدفاع عن "نزاهة الأعراق" و"عاداتنا ومؤسساتنا". وحثّ الكونغرس على الحد من سلطة المحكمة العليا للولايات المتحدة . واعتبر إصرار شمال الولايات المتحدة على الاندماج العرقي نفاقًا. ^{[ ١ ]}

Presiding over Henry v. Greenville Municiple Airport, Richard Henry initially lost his suit against the Greenville airport. Judge George Timmerman, a former South Carolina governor that opposed Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and federally-mandated segregation, ruled in favor of the airport. Timmerman, citing Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had already been overturned by Brown v. Board (1954), wrote that no law or constitutional principle "requires others to accept [Henry] as a companion or social equal."[1][2] Timmerman further declared that Henry had no intention of waiting in the white room, but was instead attempting to "instigating litigation."[2] Furthermore, the court argued that Henry did not receive irreparable injury by being prohibited from the whites-only waiting room.[17] Henry, however, won the case on appeal, and the airport desegregated under a mandatory court order in February 1961.[1] The ruling prohibited the airport "from making any distinction based upon color in regard to services at the Greenville Municipal Airport."

In the gubernatorial election of 1954, he faced nominal opposition in the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election. He became the 105th Governor of South Carolina in 1955. He sought to thwart an order by the Interstate Commerce Commission for desegregation of long-distance travel in 1955, especially because it affected public waiting rooms. At the same time, Timmerman opposed federal court orders aimed at integrating public parks, bathing beaches and golf courses. For the desegregation of public schools, he vowed with other governors of the Southern United States to thwart it with congressional or state legislation.

He was the favorite presidential candidate of the South Carolina delegation at the 1956 Democratic National Convention. During the convention, Timmerman was a leader of Southern opposition to what he called "radical civil rights legislation and radical planks in the platform." He signed a law in 1956 to bar members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from public employment in South Carolina. He opposed civil rights laws enacted by the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

After leaving the governorship in 1959, Timmerman was appointed as a judge to the state's Eleventh Judicial Circuit in 1967 and served until 1984.^[1] While a judge, Timmerman declared the 1974 South Carolina law on capital punishment to be unconstitutional.^[3] This ruling was affirmed in the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia.

توفي في 29 نوفمبر 1994 في بيتسبيرغ-ليسفيل، كارولاينا الجنوبية . ^{[ 1 ]}