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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).
fayetteville-ga.gov. Fayetteville ( / ˈfeɪ.ət.vɪl / FAY-ət-vil; locally / ˈfeɪ.ət.vəl / FAY-ət-vəl) is a city in and the county seat of Fayette County, Georgia, United States. [ 4] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,957, [ 5] up from 15,945 at the 2010 census. Fayetteville is located 22 miles (35 km) south of ...
Brian Porter Kemp (born November 2, 1963) is an American politician serving since January 2019 as the 83rd governor of Georgia. [ 1] A member of the Republican Party, Kemp served as the 27th secretary of state of Georgia from 2010 to 2018, and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007. Kemp is a graduate of the University of ...
Roy Barnes. Roy Eugene Barnes (born March 11, 1948) [1] is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. [1] As of 2024, he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia. A Democratic member of the Georgia Senate from 1974 to 1990, Barnes ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1990 ...
Rufus Bullock. Rufus Brown Bullock (March 28, 1834 – April 27, 1907) was an American politician and businessman from Georgia. A Republican, he served as the state's governor during the Reconstruction Era. He called for equal economic opportunity [2] and political rights for blacks and whites in Georgia. He also promoted public education for ...
The governor of Georgia is the head of government of Georgia and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor also has a duty to enforce state laws, the power to either veto or approve bills passed by the Georgia Legislature, and the power to convene the legislature. [2] The current governor is Republican Brian Kemp, who ...
Born in Vienna, Georgia, Busbee attended Georgia Military College and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College before joining the U.S. Navy.After his discharge, he completed his education at the University of Georgia and its School of Law in Athens, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Phi Kappa Literary Society, having procured a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a law ...
The National Bank of Georgia was established on the basis of the Georgian Republican Bank of the State Bank of the USSR in 1991. Georgia's first central bank was established in 1919. Its first manager was Yason Lordkipanidze, who headed the bank from 1919 to 1924.