New Georgia Encyclopedia: Government & Politics

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Government

Local Government

Georgia's City Governments

Georgia's County Governments

Home Rule and Ordinances

Municipal Services

Preservation Laws

Regulatory Provisions in State Government

Open Records Act

Regulatory Provisions

Workers' Compensation Act

State Government

Government and Laws: Overview

Budgeting and Financing

Capital Budgeting and State Debt

Public Authorities and Public Corporations

State Budgeting

State Revenues in Georgia

Revenue Sources, Local

Constitutional History

Constitutional Convention of 1877

Constitutional Conventions

Georgia Bill of Rights

Georgia Constitution

Georgia Secession Convention of 1861

Writ of Habeas Corpus

Executive Branch

Executive Branch: Overview

Constitutional Offices

Executive Branch Officials: Overview

Attorney General

Georgia Public Service Commission

Governor

Lieutenant Governor

Secretary of State

Governors of Georgia

Ellis Arnall (1907-1992)

William Y. Atkinson (1854-1899)

Roy Barnes (b. 1948)

Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894)

Joseph M. Brown (1851-1932)

Rufus Bullock (1834-1907)

George Busbee (1927-2004)

Allen D. Candler (1834-1910)

Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)

John Clark (1766-1832)

Howell Cobb (1815-1868)

Alfred H. Colquitt (1824-1894)

Nathan Deal (b. 1942)

Hugh M. Dorsey (1871-1948)

Peter Early (1773-1817)

Samuel Elbert (1740-1788)

John Forsyth (1780-1841)

George R. Gilmer (1790-1859)

John B. Gordon (1832-1904)

Marvin Griffin (1907-1982)

Lyman Hall (1724-1790)

George Handley (1752-1793)

Lamartine Hardman (1856-1937)

Thomas Hardwick (1872-1944)

Joe Frank Harris (b. 1936)

Nathaniel E. Harris (1846-1929)

John Houstoun (ca. 1747-1796)

Jared Irwin (ca. 1750-1818)

James Jackson (1757-1806)

Charles Jones Jenkins (1805-1883)

Herschel Johnson (1812-1880)

James Johnson (1811-1891)

Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870)

Lester Maddox (1915-2003)

John Martin (ca. 1730-1786)

George Mathews (1739-1812)

Henry McDaniel (1836-1926)

Charles McDonald (1793-1860)

John Milledge (1757-1818)

Zell Miller (b. 1932)

David B. Mitchell (1766-1837)

William J. Northen (1835-1913)

Sonny Perdue (b. 1946)

William Rabun (1771-1819)

E. D. Rivers (1895-1967)

Thomas Ruger (1833-1907)

Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897-1971)

Carl Sanders (b. 1925)

William Schley (1786-1858)

John M. Slaton (1866-1955)

Hoke Smith (1855-1931)

James M. Smith (1823-1890)

Alexander Stephens (1812-1883)

Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946)

Herman Talmadge (1913-2002)

Josiah Tattnall (ca. 1764-1803)

Edward Telfair (1735-1807)

Joseph M. Terrell (1861-1912)

Melvin Thompson (1903-1980)

George W. Towns (1801-1854)

George Troup (1780-1856)

Ernest Vandiver Jr. (1918-2005)

Clifford Walker (1877-1954)

Georgia Department of Education

Georgia Department of Labor

Statutory and Executive Boards and Commissions

Judicial Branch

Judicial Branch: Overview

Garnett Andrews (1798-1873)

Robert Benham (b. 1946)

Henry L. Benning (1814-1875)

William Bootle (1902-2005)

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Charles Crisp (1845-1896)

Preston King (b. 1936)

Legal Profession

Lena Baker Case

Leah Ward Sears (b. 1955)

Supreme Court of Georgia

Hiram Warner (1802-1881)

Charles Weltner (1927-1992)

Legislative Branch

Legislative Process: Overview

Georgia General Assembly

Preservation Laws

Georgia State Capitol

Georgia's Historic Capitals

U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)

Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)

City of Rome v. United States (1980)

Coker v. Georgia (1977)

Doe v. Bolton (1973)

Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

Furman v. Georgia (1972)

Gray v. Sanders (1963)

Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)

McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)

Screws v. United States (1945)

Stanley v. Georgia (1969)

United States v. Darby (1941)

Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

General Topics and Organizations

Business Law in Georgia

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

Convict Lease System

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

G8 Summit in Georgia

Georgia Archives

Governor's Awards in the Humanities

Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

State Flags of Georgia

Military

Base Installations

Dobbins Air Reserve Base

Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base

Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany

Moody Air Force Base

Naval Air Station Atlanta

Navy Supply Corps School

Robins Air Force Base

Souther Field

Figures

Daniel Appling (1787-1817)

Edward Porter Alexander (1835-1910)

Henry L. Benning (1814-1875)

Donald Bryan (1921-2012)

James D. Bulloch (1823-1901)

Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978)

William A. Connelly (b. 1931)

Raymond G. Davis (1915-2003)

Charles Dryden (1920-2008)

Samuel Elbert (1740-1788)

James Walker Fannin Jr. (1804-1836)

Henry O. Flipper (1856-1940)

William J. Hardee (1815-1873)

Alfred Iverson Jr. (1829-1911)

Henry Rootes Jackson (1820-1898)

Raphael Moses (1812-1893)

Robert Scott (1908-2006)

Daniel Stewart (1761-1829)

Carl Vinson (1883-1981)

History

Foreign Prisoners of War

Industries

Museums

Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum

National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus

Politics

Issues and Controversies

Campaign Finance Laws

Children in Poverty in Georgia

Cocking Affair

County Unit System

Education Reform

Election Structures and Reform

Gubernatorial Election of 1966

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Sibley Commission

Three Governors Controversy

Parties, Interest Groups, and Movements

Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL)

The Black Church in Atlanta Politics

Black Suffrage in the Twentieth Century

Bourbon Triumvirate

Concerned Black Clergy

Dixiecrats

Georgia Legislative Black Caucus

League of Women Voters of Georgia

Public-Opinion Polling

Southern Regional Council

Student Movement of the 1960s

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Third Parties

Woman Suffrage

People

Ivan Allen Jr. (1911-2003)

Ivan Allen Sr. (1876-1968)

Roy Barnes (b. 1948)

Griffin Bell (1918-2009)

James Blount (1837-1903)

Julian Bond (b. 1940)

Paul Broun Sr. (1916-2005)

Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894)

Joseph M. Brown (1851-1932)

Tom Buck (b. 1938)

George Busbee (1927-2004)

Howard Hollis 'Bo' Callaway (b. 1927)

John Archibald Campbell

Allen D. Candler (1834-1910)

Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)

Augustin Smith Clayton (1783-1839)

Max Cleland (b. 1942)

Paul Coverdell (1939-2000)

Charles Crisp (1845-1896)

Nathan Deal (b. 1942)

Hugh M. Dorsey (1871-1948)

Mike Egan (b. 1926)

Dorothy Felton (b. 1929)

John Forsyth (1780-1841)

Ben Fortson (1904-1979)

Wyche Fowler (b. 1940)

J. B. Fuqua (1918-2006)

Walter F. George (1878-1957)

Hugh Gillis (b. 1918)

Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)

Marvin Griffin (1907-1982)

Denmark Groover (1922-2001)

Lamartine Hardman (1856-1937)

Joe Frank Harris (b. 1936)

William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971)

Maynard Jackson (1938-2003)

Leroy Johnson (b. 1928)

Hamilton Jordan (1944-2008)

Culver Kidd (1914-1995)

Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916)

Bert Lance (b. 1931)

Bill Lee (b. 1925)

John Lewis (b. 1940)

Lester Maddox (1915-2003)

Sidney J. Marcus (1928-1983)

George Mathews (1739-1812)

Zell Miller (b. 1932)

Tom Murphy (1924-2007)

Sam Nunn (b. 1938)

Sonny Perdue (b. 1946)

Hugh Peterson Sr. (1898-1961)

Dean Rusk (1909-1994)

Richard B. Russell Jr. (1897-1971)

Carl Sanders (b. 1925)

John M. Slaton (1866-1955)

Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946)

Herman Talmadge (1913-2002)

Clarence Thomas (b. 1948)

Melvin Thompson (1903-1980)

W. J. Usery Jr. (b. 1923)

Ernest Vandiver Jr. (1918-2005)

Carl Vinson (1883-1981)

James Moore Wayne (1790-1867)

Charles Weltner (1927-1992)

Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922)

William Burnham Woods (1824-1887)

Andrew Young (b. 1932)

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