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There have officially been 83 governors of the State of Georgia, including 11 who served more than one distinct term (John Houstoun, George Walton, Edward Telfair, George Mathews, Jared Irwin, David Brydie Mitchell, George Rockingham Gilmer, M. Hoke Smith, Joseph Mackey Brown, John M. Slaton and Eugene Talmadge, with Herman Talmadge serving two de facto distinct terms).
On December 1, 2021, Abrams announced she would run again for governor of Georgia. [99] She ran unopposed in the Democratic primary on May 24, 2022, and faced Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the November 8 general election. [100] Abrams and Kemp had their first of two scheduled debates on October 17.
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer who served as Governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873. Pinchback was the first African-American governor and the second lieutenant governor (after Oscar Dunn) in the United
First female African-American major-party candidate for governor: Stacey Abrams, Georgia First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Garlin Gilchrist [32] First African-American Attorney General of New York: Letitia James [33] First African-American and First woman elected Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates: Adrienne ...
The body included the first black people appointed to a state commission since the Reconstruction era. [ 26 ] [ 20 ] Equipped with the commission's recommendations, the following year he stated that Georgia's education system was a "modern crisis" and called for a $30 million increase in taxes to improve schools. [ 25 ]
His 1998 election as state labor commissioner made Thurmond the first Black candidate to win statewide office in Georgia without first being appointed. He is now the elected CEO of DeKalb County ...
Brown is the first black Attorney General of Maryland. Andrea Campbell ... Georgia: 1990 1992 Appointed by governor, lost special election primary Mike Thurmond
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Southern Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist [1] when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, the Pickrick, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.