Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Following the end of the American Civil War, Georgia during Reconstruction was part of the Third Military District, which exerted some control over governor appointments and elections. Georgia was readmitted to the Union on July 25, 1868; [4] again expelled from Congress on March 3, 1869; [5] and again readmitted on July 15, 1870. [6]
John Nathan Deal (born August 25, 1942) is an American politician and former lawyer who served as the 82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. A Republican, he previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
From 1877 to 1906, the Railroad Commission was a three-member body appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate. In 1906, the Georgia State Constitution reformed the Railroad Commission into a five-member body elected at-large statewide.
A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 81st governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011 and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 1991 to 2002. Founder and partner in an agricultural trading company, [ 3 ] Perdue was elected governor of Georgia in 2002 , defeating incumbent Roy Barnes and becoming the first Republican to ...
Roy Eugene Barnes (born March 11, 1948) [1] is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. [1] As of 2025, he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), among the party’s highest-profile critics of President-elect Trump, responded to getting kicked out of the Georgia Republican Party on Thursday by ...
The following is a list of former members of the Georgia State Senate (1789–present) and the prior Executive Council (1777–1789). This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Prior to his election as Attorney General, Olens served as chairman of the Cobb County, Georgia Commission from 1998 through 2010. He defeated former district attorney Ken Hodges in the 2010 state elections for Attorney General, becoming the first Jew to win a statewide, partisan race in Georgia. [ 4 ]