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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.
Karen Christine Handel (née Walker; born April 18, 1962) is an American businesswoman and former politician.A member of the Republican Party, Handel served as chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners from 2003 to 2006, as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2007 to 2010, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019.
Founder and First Governor of Georgia James Oglethorpe. Flannery O'Connor, author; Eugene Odum, University of Georgia faculty member; Offset, rapper; member of Migos; James Oglethorpe, state founder; born in England; Alec Ogletree, football player; Kelley O'Hara, soccer player; USWNT/Washington Spirit defender; Maude Andrews Ohl, journalist ...
Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820310053. Hathorn, Billy Burton (1987). "The Frustration of Opportunity: Georgia Republicans and the Election of 1966". Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. XXXI (4) (winter ed.): 37– 52. Henderson, Harold Paulk ...
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 ...
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 .
Born in Vienna, Georgia, Busbee attended Georgia Military College and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College before joining the U.S. Navy.After his discharge, he completed his education at the University of Georgia and its School of Law in Athens, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Phi Kappa Literary Society, having procured a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a law ...