Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Georges is a New Orleans, Louisiana, businessman who formerly served on the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body which supervises higher education in his native state. He is a commissioner of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad and the chairman of Georges Enterprises. In 2007, Georges ran for governor as an Independent. He received 186,000 votes and procured a plurality in Orleans Parish. In 2010 he sought the office of mayor of New Orleans, running as a Democrat; he finished a distant third behind two other Democrats.