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Herman Talmadge was born on August 9, 1913, on a farm near the small town of McRae in Telfair County in southeastern Georgia. He was the only son of Eugene Talmadge and his wife, Mattie (Thurmond), and through his mother, he was a second cousin of South Carolina Senator and 1948 Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond.
Eugene Talmadge was born on September 23, 1884, in Forsyth, Georgia, the second of two children to Thomas and Carrie (Roberts) Talmadge. [3] [4] He attended the University of Georgia and graduated from the university's law school in 1907. [4]
When Eugene Talmadge's health issues became evident in the fall of 1946, his supporters believed this provision would require the General Assembly to choose between the second- and third-placed candidates in case of his death, and thus prepared by organizing enough write-in votes to ensure his son Herman Talmadge would take part. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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 21, 1946, Talmadge died before taking office. The state constitution did not specify who would assume the governorship in such a situation, [14] so three men made claims to the governorship: Ellis Arnall, the outgoing governor; Melvin E. Thompson, the lieutenant governor-elect; and Herman Talmadge, Eugene Talmadge's son.
Herman Talmadge, the son of the winner of the 1946 election, the late Eugene Talmadge, [3] defeated Governor Thompson in the Democratic primary by a margin of 51.8% to 45.1% with three other candidates getting 3.1% of the vote [4] [5] and then proceeded to win the general election with 97.51% of the vote.
But the state legislature, controlled by Talmadge supporters, invoked a clause in the constitution allowing the legislature to pick between the second- and third-place candidates. The people who finished second and third were two write-in candidates, Eugene Talmadge's son, Herman E. Talmadge and James V. Carmichael. The legislature elected ...
In 1949, Eugene's son Herman Talmadge, who had briefly served as governor during the three governors controversy, pushed for the installation of a statue honoring his deceased father. [1] Steffen Thomas sculpted the statue from his studio in nearby Stone Mountain, Georgia .