George Chahoon was an American politician from Virginia and New York. He was Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, from 1868 to 1870, and a member of the New York State Senate from 1896 to 1900.
Chahoon was born in Sherburne, New York, but his family moved to Virginia not long after he was born. He grew up in Botetourt County and at the time the Civil War began was working in Washington, D.C., as a clerk in the Treasury Department.
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