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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 ...
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]
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 ...
William Burton Jones (born April 25, 1979) is an American politician and businessman who has served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Georgia since 2023. [1] A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the Georgia State Senate from January 2013 to January 2023, representing the 25th District.
After service as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Geer was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Georgia from 1963 to 1967 under his fellow Democrat, Governor Carl Sanders. To win the lieutenant governorship, Geer defeated in the 1962 primary runoff his fellow segregationist and later Governor Lester Maddox, a restaurateur from ...
Carol Porter would have become the first female Lieutenant Governor of Georgia if she had won election in 2010. The election for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia took place on November 2, 2010, at the same time as the election for Governor—an office for which her then-husband DuBose Porter was running—although the offices are elected ...
Howard was born into a political family, the son of Pierre DuVinage Howard (1912-1976) and Caroline Ridley Howard (1913-2013). His great-grandfather, Thomas Coke Howard, was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Georgia (U.S. state) lieutenant gubernatorial elections (16 P) Pages in category "Lieutenant governors of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.