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The election had been marked by violence and fraud. Pinchback rose to acting governor in Warmoth's stead by way of article 53 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1868, which held that the lieutenant governor would assume the duties of the governor "in case of impeachment of the Governor, his removal from office, death . . . resignation or absence ...
The "Expelled Because of Their Color" monument is located near the Capitol Avenue entrance of the Georgia State Capitol. It was dedicated to the 33 original African-American Georgia legislators who were elected during the Reconstruction period. In the first election (1868) after the Civil war, blacks were allowed to vote.
Ellis Arnall (left) being denied entry to the governor's Capitol office during the controversy. The Three governors controversy was a political crisis in the U.S. state of Georgia, from 1946 to 1947. On December 21, 1946, Eugene Talmadge, the governor-elect of Georgia, died before taking office
First African-American woman elected to the Alaska Legislature: Bettye Davis. 1991; First African-American woman elected to the Louisiana State Senate: Diana Bajoie. 1992; First African-American elected to a statewide office in Indiana: Pamela Carter, office of Attorney General First African-American Minnesota Supreme Court justice: Alan Page. 1993
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 ...
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).
Six days earlier, Trump had railed for 10 minutes against Kemp during the Atlanta campaign rally for not supporting his false theories of election fraud and blamed the governor for not stopping a ...
Burt Jones, current Lt. Governor of Georgia, then a state senator, fake elector. Identified by a December 7, 2020, tweet quoted in the indictment calling for Georgia voters to demand that "every legal vote is counted", which Giuliani re-tweeted. The indictment mentions Jones over a dozen times, including the allegation of being a fake elector.