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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.
A former Republican, he served as the 12th lieutenant Governor of Georgia from 2019 to 2023. Duncan is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. After playing college baseball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Duncan played professional baseball for six years, until a shoulder injury ended his baseball career. He went into ...
The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 76 (3): 612– 638. JSTOR 40582593. Sanders, Randy (2002). Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2565-6.
After the desegregation of the University of Georgia, [9] Vandiver successfully urged the Georgia General Assembly to repeal a recently passed law barring state funding to integrated schools. [10] He also appointed banker John A. Sibley to head a state commission designed to prepare for the court-ordered school desegregation. [1]
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 ...
Zell Bryan Miller (February 24, 1932 – March 23, 2018) was an American politician who served as a United States senator representing Georgia from 2000 to 2005 and as the 79th governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Miller served as lieutenant governor of Georgia from 1975 to 1991.
Vernon Angus Jones (born October 31, 1960) is an American politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001 and from 2017 to 2021.. Between his periods in the Georgia House of Representatives, Jones was chief executive officer of DeKalb County from 2001 to 2009.