Who Runs Georgia?
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0820320757
ISBN 13
9780820320755
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
296
Subject
Elite (Social sciences)--Georgia--Interviews. Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
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Abstract
Nearly one hundred thousand newly enfranchised blacks voted against race-baiting Eugene Talmadge in Georgia's 1946 Democratic primary. His opponent won the popular vote by a majority of sixteen thousand. Talmadge was elected anyway, thanks to the malapportioning county unit system, but died before he could be inaugurated, whereupon the General Assembly chose his son Herman to take his place. For the next sixty-three days, Georgia waited in shock for the state supreme court to decide whether Herman or the lieutenant governor-elect would be seated.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index.
Number of Copies
1
