George Hammond
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The following article refers to the sci-fi television show, Stargate SG-1.
Major General (later Lieutenant General) George S. Hammond, played by Don S. Davis, was the head of the USAF's Stargate Command. He replaced General West who commanded the Stargate Project during the original excursion to Abydos (in the original movie Stargate). An Air Force officer since the mid-1960s, shutting down the Stargate program was to have been his last assignment before retirement.
Master Bra'tac has been known to call him "Hammond of Texas", he being a native of that state. He is a widower; his wife died of cancer. He has two grandchildren, Kayla and Tessa, whose phone number is keyed to the '1' button on his office phone. The President is number '2'.
Hammond left the series at the beginning of season 8, when he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and placed in command of the new Homeworld Security department, a department which was in control of Stargate Command, the Prometheus project, and the Alpha Site.
In 1969, Hammond met SG-1 from approximately 30 years in the future and read a note that he had written to himself. After SG-1 broke out of military custody, Jack O'Neill shot Hammond with a zat gun in order to prevent Hammond from a court martial for helping the team escape.
An alien on a planet in the Pegasus galaxy impersonated Hammond while making contact with the team assigned to Atlantis. Before his promotion, USA President Henry Hayes, a friend of Hammond's, put the general in charge of Prometheus during the battle in Antarctica against the forces of Anubis. Also, the real Hammond commanded a short-lived and futile mission to take Prometheus to Atlantis.
Hammond later made guest appearances during the first season of Stargate Atlantis and the eighth season of Stargate SG-1. Don S. Davis left his regular position on the show due to medical problems and to devote more time to his love of painting.