George Washington Blagden (October 3, 1802 – December 17, 1884) was an American clergyman. Blagden was born in Washington, D. C., October 3, 1802. He entered Yale College in 1820 and graduated in 1823. After graduation, he took the three years' course at the Andover Theological Seminary. On December 26, 1827, he was ordained the first pastor of the Congregational Church in Brighton, Mass., then just organized as a result of the prevailing Unitarian controversy. He left this parish to accept a call to the Salem Street (Congregational) Church in Boston, where he was installed, November 3, 1830; and he was dismissed on September 5, 1836, from this engagement, to be installed on the 28th of the same month over the Old South Church, in the same city. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Co