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Duncan announced he would run for lieutenant governor of Georgia on April 10, 2017. [15] He resigned from the Georgia House in September 2017 to focus on running for lieutenant governor in 2018. [16] [17] He was described as an "underdog" candidate against David Shafer, who had served as president pro tempore of the Georgia State Senate. [18]
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).
The lieutenant governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the State of Georgia, elected to a four-year term by popular vote. Unlike in some other U.S. states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the governor of Georgia. Constitutionally, the lieutenant governor's primary job is to serve as president of Georgia's ...
Three boys, 6, 12, and 13 years old, were killed. A 36-year-old woman, a 74-year-old woman and a 74-year-old man also died, county officials said. The names of the victims have not been released.
Six people, including three children, were killed in a fire that destroyed a home southwest of Atlanta early Monday, the local coroner said. The children's ages were 6, 12 and 13, the Coweta ...
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Georgia's lieutenant governor office does not have the same two-term limit as the governorship, so Cagle ran for and won a third term as lieutenant governor in 2014. He ran unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated former State Senator and DeKalb County Commissioner Connie Stokes in the general election. Cagle won re-election with 58% of ...
Matthew Allen "Matt" Towery (born December 6, 1959) [2] is an American political analyst, pollster, television commentator, attorney, and former Georgia state legislator. [ 3 ] In late 2014, Towery encouraged Donald Trump to run for the US presidency, suggesting he would be a serious contender. [ 4 ]