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The state government of Georgia is the U.S. state governmental body established by the Georgia State Constitution. It is a republican form of government with three branches : the legislature , executive , and judiciary .
The state's chief cash crop, cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,000 in 1865, while harvests of corn and wheat were also meager. [1] The state government subsidized construction of numerous new railroad lines.
1859–1860 Appling Appling H. R. Fort 1861–1863 3rd Appling, Silas Overstreet 1865–1866 3rd Appling, Elisha D. Graham 1868–1869 3rd Appling, Merritt Henderson 1870 3rd Appling, John C. Nicholls 1871–1874 3rd Appling, Daniel G. Hopps 1875–1877 3rd Appling, Gideon J. Holton 1878–1879 3rd Appling, Lemuel Johnson 1880–1881, 1884–1885
Rival governments were formed during the Revolutionary War, with the Patriot government surviving and forming a unified state government after the war. Georgian politics then followed the Democratic-Republican Party before the American Civil War and the Democrats afterward. In fact, the state never voted Republican until 1964, making it the ...
A department in turn usually consists of several divisions, offices, and/or agencies. A state government may also include various boards, commissions, councils, corporations, offices, or authorities, which may either be subordinate to an existing department or division, or independent altogether.
The 1860 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
This category is for government agencies established in the decade 1860s . 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; ... Government agencies established in 1860 (2 C ...
State delegation to the United States House of Representatives For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes. Darker shading indicates confirmed partisan affiliation or majority; lighter shading indicates likely, but unconfirmed, partisan affiliation or majority.