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Biden declared a national day of mourning and federal holiday for January 9, the day of Carter's funeral service. [47] [48] Black mourning drapes were placed over portraits of Carter at Smithsonian Institution facilities, the White House, the Georgia State Capitol, the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, and other official sites. [49] [50] [51]
Following Carter's state funeral in Washington, the Carter family traveled to Plains, Georgia, for a private funeral service at Maranatha Baptist Church. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter attended the ...
The caisson bearing the casket of John F. Kennedy moving down the White House drive on the way to St. Matthew's Cathedral on November 25, 1963.. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and ...
In 2024, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 189, removing the Georgia Secretary of State from the State Election Board. [2] It also established the board as it;s own entity and provided for a budget.
Floyd L. Griffin Jr. (born May 24, 1944) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Milledgeville, Georgia, from 2001 to 2005, and in the Georgia State Senate representing the 25th district from 1995 to 1999, as a member of the Democratic Party.
He was a member of the institution for over half a century and from 1996 until his death served as honorary chairman of its advisory board. In 2008, Bell donated his papers to GHS, where they are available for research. See the finding aid for the Griffin B. Bell papers Archived 2023-02-02 at the Wayback Machine at the Georgia Historical Society.
Lewis A. Massey (born July 20, 1962) is an American businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Georgia Secretary of State, [1] and was a candidate for governor of Georgia in 1998.
The secretary of state of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records. The office has had a four-year term since 1946. [1] Before 1880, the secretary of state was elected by the Georgia Assembly, not in a popular election. [1]