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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.
Mark Amick: member of the Georgia Republican Foundation board of governors, and unsuccessful candidate for Milton city council in 2019. Was a poll-watcher during the 2020 election and later testified that during the first recount he had witnessed more than 9,000 votes erroneously assigned to Biden.
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 2024, he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia.
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 (2008).
Mark Fletcher Taylor (born May 7, 1957) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served two terms between 1999 and 2007 as the 10th lieutenant governor of Georgia. Taylor was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2006, losing in the general election to Republican incumbent Sonny Perdue .
The 1970 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. It was marked by the election as Governor of Georgia of the relatively little-known former state senator Jimmy Carter after a hard battle in the Democratic primary.
The 1990 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1990. Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller ran for governor after incumbent Joe Frank Harris was term-limited, defeating Andrew Young, Roy Barnes, and Lester Maddox for the Democratic nomination, and defeated Johnny Isakson, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. [1]