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==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
| + | * Cook, James F. ''The Governors of Georgia.'' Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1979. 320 pp. | ||
* Henderson, Harold P. and Roberts, Gary L., eds. ''Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee.'' Athens: U. of Georgia Pr., 1988. 352 pp. | * Henderson, Harold P. and Roberts, Gary L., eds. ''Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee.'' Athens: U. of Georgia Pr., 1988. 352 pp. | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 13:56, February 14, 2009
A list of governors from the state of Georgia.[1][2]
Colonial Governors of Georgia
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| James Oglethorpe | 1733-1743 |
| William Stephens | 1743-1751 |
| Henry Parker | 1751-1752 |
| Patrick Graham | 1752-1754 |
| John Reynolds | 1754-1757 |
| Henry Ellis | 1757-1760 |
| James Wright | 1760-1776, 1779-1782[3] |
State Governors of Georgia
| Name | Party | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Archibald Bulloch | Whig | 1776-1777 |
| Button Gwinnett | Whig | 1777 |
| John Adam Treutlen | Whig | 1777-1778 |
| John Houstoun | Whig | 1778-1779, 1784-1785 |
| John Wereat | Whig | 1779 |
| George Walton | Whig/Jeffersonian Republican | 1779-1780, 1789 |
| Richard Howley | Whig | 1780 |
| Stephen Heard | Whig | 1780-1781 |
| Nathan Brownsen | Whig | 1781-1782 |
| John Martin | 1782-1783 | |
| Lyman Hall | 1783-1784 | |
| Samuel Elbert | Whig | 1785-1786 |
| Edward Telfair | Jefersonian Republican | 1786-1787, 1789-1793 |
| George Mathews | Jeffersonian Republican | 1787-1788, 1793-1796 |
| George Handley | 1788-1789 | |
| Jared Irwin | Democratic Republican | 1796-1798, 1806-1809 |
| James Jackson | Democratic Republican | 1798-1801 |
| David Emanuel | Democratic Republican | 1801 |
| Josiah Tattnall, Jr. | Democratic Republican | 1801-1802 |
| John Milledge | Democratic Republican | 1802-1806 |
| David Brydie Mitchell | Democratic Republican | 1809-1813, 1815-1817 |
| Peter Early | Democratic Republican | 1813-1815 |
| William Rabun | Democratic Republican | 1817-1819 |
| Matthew Talbot | Democratic Republican | 1819 |
| John Clark | Democratic Republican | 1819-1823 |
| George Michael Troup | Democratic Republican | 1823-1827 |
| John Forsyth | Democratic Republican | 1827-1829 |
| George Rockingham Gilmer | Democrat/Whig | 1829-1831, 1837-1839 |
| Wilson Lumpkin | Union Democrat | 1831-1835 |
| William Schley | Union Democrat | 1835-1837 |
| Charles James McDonald | Democrat | 1839-1843 |
| George Walker Crawford | Whig | 1843-1847 |
| George Washington Bonaparte Towns | Democrat | 1847-1851 |
| Howell Cobb | Union Democrat | 1851-1853 |
| Herschel Vespasian Johnson | Democrat | 1853-1857 |
| Joseph Emerson Brown | Democrat | 1857-1865 |
| James Johnson | Democrat | 1865 |
| Charles Jones Jenkins | Union Democrat | 1865-1868 |
| Thoms Howard Ruger | Military | 1868 |
| Rufus Brown Bullock | Republican | 1868-1871 |
| Benjamin F. Conley | Republican | 1871-1872 |
| James Milton Smith | Democrat | 1872-1877 |
| Alfred Holt Colquitt | Democrat | 1877-1882 |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens | Democrat/Whig | 1882-1883 |
| James Boynton | Democrat | 1883 |
| Henry Dickerson McDaniel | Democrat | 1883-1886 |
| John Brown Gordon | Democrat | 1886-1890 |
| William Jonathan Northen | Democrat | 1890-1894 |
| William Yates Atkinson | Democrat | 1894-1898 |
| Allen D. Candler | Democrat | 1898-1902 |
| Joseph Meriwether Terrell | Democrat | 1902-1907 |
| Hoke Smith | Democrat | 1907-1909, 1911 |
| Joseph Mackey Brown | Democrat | 1909-1911, 1912-1913 |
| John Marshall Slaton | Democrat | 1911-1912, 1913-1915 |
| Nathaniel Edwin Harris | Democrat | 1915-1917 |
| Hugh Manson Dorsey | Democrat | 1917-1921 |
| Thomas William Hardwick | Democrat | 1921-1923 |
| Clifford Mitchell Walker | Democrat | 1923-1927 |
| Lamartine Griffon Hardman | Democrat | 1927-1931 |
| Richard Brevard Russell | Democrat | 1931-1933 |
| Eugene Talmadge | Democrat | 1933-1937, 1941-1943 |
| Eurith Dickinson Rivers | Democrat | 1937-1941 |
| Ellis Gibbs Arnall | Democrat | 1943-1947 |
| Herman Eugene Talmadge | Democrat | 1947, 1948-1955 |
| Melvin Ernest Thompson | Democrat | 1947-1948 |
| Samuel Marvin Griffin | Democrat | 1955-1959 |
| Samuel Ernest Vandiver, Jr. | Democrat | 1959-1963 |
| Carl Edward Sanders | Democrat | 1963-1967 |
| Lester Garfield Maddox | Democrat | 1967-1971 |
| Jimmy Earl Carter, Jr. | Democrat | 1971-1975 |
| George Dekle Busbee | Democrat | 1975-1983 |
| Joe Frank Harris | Democrat | 1983-1991 |
| Zell Miller | Democrat | 1991-1999 |
| Roy E. Barnes | Democrat | 1999-2003 |
| Sonny Perdue | Republican | 2003-present |
Further reading
- Cook, James F. The Governors of Georgia. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1979. 320 pp.
- Henderson, Harold P. and Roberts, Gary L., eds. Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee. Athens: U. of Georgia Pr., 1988. 352 pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=GA
- ↑ http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-governors-of-Georgia
- ↑ British troops retook a good bit of Georgia during the Revolutionary War, of which Wright governed from 1779-1782.
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