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The 1986 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986. Governor Joe Frank Harris (D) was overwhelmingly re-elected over Guy Davis (R) to win re-election. As the state was beginning to trend more Republican, this is the last election in which the Democrat won the governorship by double digits. As of 2022 this is last governor ...
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 4, 1986, in 36 states and two territories. The Democrats had a net loss of eight seats during this election, which coincided with the Senate and the House elections.
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]
On election day, 4 November 1986, Democratic nominee Zell Miller ran unopposed and won re-election with 871,259 votes, thereby retaining Democratic control over the office of lieutenant governor. Miller was sworn in for his fourth term on 12 January 1987.
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 ...
Carter's official portrait as governor of Georgia, 1971. Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time for racial discrimination is over", [74] shocking the crowd and causing many segregationists who had supported his candidacy to feel betrayed. Carter was reluctant ...
Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924, in the farming community of Plains, Georgia.. Carter went on to serve in the US Navy and was sworn in as president in 1977. He died on December 29, 2024 ...
The 1986 United States elections were held on November 4 and elected the members of the 100th United States Congress. The elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Ronald Reagan's second term. Democrats regained unified control of both chambers of Congress for the first time since the 1980 elections.