George Yarbrough

George M. Yarbrough (August 15, 1916 – November 27, 1988) was a newspaper owner and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate.

He was born in Red Banks, Mississippi. He achieved the rank of master sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1958. He acquired The South Reporter and became its editor. Yarbrough served on the committees overseeing the federal Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) program. He organized an investigation of voter drive registration efforts that included African Americans .

Yarbrough ordered Mississippi Highway Patrol officers off the University of Mississippi campus while acting as the governor's representative during the 1962 protests over James Meredith's federal court ordered admittance to the whites only school. In 1958, he sponsored an anti-NAACP resolution.