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George Thomas Armitage (September 7, 1891 - November 6, 1966) was an American tourism executive and publisher. Armitage moved to Hawaii in 1914 and found a job working for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin as a reporter. He served as a lieutenant in the 27th Infantry Division in the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia after World War I. In 1920 he founded the Hawaii Tourist Bureau and served as executive secretary of the organization until 1942 when World War II forced its closure. He published books on Hawaiiana after the war, including one titled 'How's Your Hawaiian?' He retired around 1956 and moved to Calistoga, California, where he died of uremic poisoning. He married Louise Webber on December 31, 1917, in Tacoma, Washington.
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