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Representative Party District Term Notes Start End Length of service Tulsi Gabbard: Democratic: HI-02: January 3, 2013: January 3, 2021: 8 years, 0 days First practicing Hindu elected to Congress. Retired to run unsuccessfully for president of the United States. [2] [3] Ro Khanna: Democratic: CA-17: January 3, 2017: Incumbent 8 years, 2 days
Georgia is represented in the United States House of Representatives by 14 elected representatives, each campaigning and receiving votes in only one district of the 14. After the 2000 census, the State of Georgia was divided into 13 congressional districts, increasing from 11 due to reapportionment.
It is one of approximately 15 Hindu temples in the metro Atlanta area, along with 7 other Hindu temples in Georgia serving nearly 100,000 Hindus in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Perry, Savannah, Columbus, Rome/Cartersville and other remote centers. There are an estimated 75,000 Muslims in the area and approximately 3 [20] 5 mosques.
BAPS followers in the greater Atlanta area began gathering in the 1980s at various devotees’ houses for worship. In 1988, followers purchased a skating rink which was renovated and re-established as a mandir in Clarkston, Georgia. [6] In February 2000, the twenty-nine-acre plot of the current mandir was purchased in Lilburn, Georgia.
Georgia became a U.S. state in 1788, which allowed it to send congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms.
House of Representatives Georgia State Senate Georgia House of Representatives; Communist Party of Georgia: 1919 Marxism–Leninism: Non-electoral political party: Libertarian Party of Georgia: 1972 Libertarianism: 1.24% [6] 0/2 [2] 0/14 [3] 0/56 [4] 0/180 [5] New Black Panther Party of Georgia: 1989 Black nationalism: Non-electoral political ...
Hindu temples in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) This page was last edited on 19 May 2012, at 20:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Hindu Temple of Atlanta is located in Riverdale, Georgia, and serves the Metro Atlanta Hindu population. But, because of its proximity to the I-75, and its popularity, nearly 5-10% of the devotees are from the eastern seaboard, southern, and midwestern states.