George Jewel Porter was the son of George V. Porter & Wyona Porter of Marion, Ohio. George J. Porter was born 27 January 1924 in Marion, Ohio. George attended Marion schools and Ohio State University. George J. Porter was a veteran of World War Two. George went by the nickname, “Jude.” George graduated from West Point on 4 Jun 1946, and was commissioned in the Coast Artillery Corps. On 7 July 1946.
George J. Porter served during the Korean War as battery commander in the 76th Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the 10th Anti-Aircraft Group.
George would return from Korea and attend the Artillery Advanced Course at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. He would return to Ohio, and from 1953 to 1955 he would serve duty with the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. After completing his assignment in Ohio, George would go to Germany and serve with the 3rd Armored Division “Spearhead,” 3rd Battalion, 16th Artillery Regiment.
George would later earn his Law degree and work as a Patent Attorney with National Aeronautical and Space Agency (NASA) in Huntsville, Alabama. After moving to Chicago, Illinois, George would work as a senior patent attorney with Brunswick Corporation. Eventually he returned to Huntsville, Alabama to open his own law firm.
After ten years of running his own law firm, George would retire and earn his pilots license and travel the country with his wife Joan. After the loss of Joan he would later be reunited with an old friend, Lucy, from his West Point days and eventually marry her.
George passed away unexpectedly on 20 July 2005, in Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina. He was buried Calvary Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. George left behind six children from his union with Joan, his 103-year-old mother and his wife, brother Thomas and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

George J. Porter is remembered on the World War II Veterans Memorial Wall at the Marion Cemetery.