George Beswick Hynson

George Beswick Hynson Sr. (April 2, 1862 – December 5, 1926) was an American lawyer, writer, poet, and newspaper editor at the Peninsula News and Advertiser. He was the Progressive Party candidate for the Governor of Delaware in 1912. He was the author of the state song, Our Delaware. He later worked as a head of an advertising company in Philadelphia, where he died in 1926. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Delaware.

Publications The Practical Treatment of Stammering and Stuttering: With Suggestions for Practice and Helpful Exercises (1902) with George Andrew Lewis Advanced Elocution (1896) with Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker and John Hendricks Bechtel