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John Hardy Isakson (December 28, 1944 – December 19, 2021) was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party , he previously served in the Georgia legislature and the United States House of Representatives .
Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died ...
Incumbent Senator Johnny Isakson won re-election to a third term in office by a wide margin. [2] He later resigned from the Senate on December 31, 2019, due to health issues. As of 2024, this remains the last time Republicans won a Senate election in Georgia, as well as the last time that suburban Gwinnett and Henry counties have voted ...
Johnny Isakson, a former Georgia GOP senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died Sunday. He was 76.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Georgia took place on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson won re-election to a second term. [ 1 ]
Senators, Georgia politicians, family members and friends held one last meeting of what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the “Johnny Isakson fan club” on Thursday, remembering the ...
The runoff election for Isakson's former seat was on January 5, 2021. The regularly-scheduled runoff election for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by Republican David Perdue was also decided in a January 5 runoff. Before the Georgia runoffs in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections, Republicans held 50 Senate seats and the Democratic caucus held 48. [203]
Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first female U.S. senator, representing Georgia in the Senate for one day in 1922, [1] having been appointed to the seat to replace Thomas E. Watson after his death in September 1922. Richard Russell Jr. was the state's longest serving senator, served from 1933 to 1971.