Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556093918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Georgia and Other State Greats (Biographies)
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556093918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Massachusetts and Other State Greats (Biographies)
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 155609700X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia
Author: Thomas E. SchottPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807121061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WINNER OF THE JEFFERSON DAVIS AWARD Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883) became one of the South’s leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas E. Schott has written the first scholarly biography that analyzes the interplay between the public and private Stephens and between state and national politics during his contradictory career. Stephens was a celebrated Whig, turned Democrat, who served as congressman from 1843 to 1859 and an antisecessionist who became vice-president of the Confederacy. Ignored by the Davis administration once in office, he eventually opposed most of its wartime policies. Schott argues that Stephens’ devotion to the southern cause was as genuine as his devotion to civil liberties and states’ rights. After the war, he became an elder statesman for Georgia, serving nine more years as a congress-man and the last five months of his life as governor.
Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida: Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public and Many Early Settled Families in These States
Author: Arizona and Other State Greats
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556095066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Georgia Biographical Dictionary
Author: Caryn HannanPublisher: State History Publications
ISBN: 1878592424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 925
Book Description
GEORGIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY is the definitive biographical reference work on people that have contributed to the history of Georgia. Biographees were chosen from various vocations. Activists, artists, authors, athletes, educators, business leaders, entertainers, historians, inventors, journalists, military figures, musicians, politicians, philanthropists, religious leaders and many other vocations. The place index will make it easy to research people from any place in Georgia. The editorial content of the work is well balanced over all time periods, as well as gender and political affiliations. The work contains historical and contemporary figures Minority studies are of special interest in schools today. February is Black History Month and November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Biographies on Native Americans and African Americans are included in this reference work for research on minority studies. March is National Women's History Month and GEORGIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY includes biographies on hundreds of women from various vocations, ethnicity and time periods. This unique reference work contains hundreds of biographies along with illustrations. GEORGIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY will be used year round in the various studies on Georgia history, Black history, American Indian history and Women's history.
The Politics of Change in Georgia
Author: Harold P. HendersonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820313061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This biography of Ellis Arnall follows the life and political career of the former governor from his rural Georgia upbringing through his service as state representative, attorney general, and governor to his subsequent political exile. Arnall assumed the governorship of Georgia in 1943, becoming the youngest person in the United States ever elected to that position. In his single term (1943-1947) he initiated a series of remarkable reforms that elevated Georgia above its Tobacco Road image and stood it alongside North Carolina, then the South's most progressive state. Unlike most of his colleagues, Arnall refused to "play it safe" in the state's political arena. Though still a segregationist and a traditionalist in many ways, Arnall had no patience for provincialism and cared deeply about Georgia and how it was viewed by the rest of the nation. Boldly confronting the demagoguery of his predecessor Eugene Talmadge, Arnall, who called himself "a democrat with a small 'd'," united the state's liberal and conservative factions to deliver the promise of the New South to all of Georgia's citizens: biracial voting, government reform, economic development, and an improved standard of living. So sweeping and farsighted were Arnall's accomplishments that, to a great extent, the structure of Georgia's present-day government evolved under his guidance and has changed little since. In 1985, a Georgia Association of Historians survey ranked Arnall's leadership, responsiveness to issues, and national reputation the highest among governors who served from 1943-1983. Successful as it was, his career, begun a decade earlier in the state house of representatives, was cut short. Many Georgians felt that Arnall was too liberal and, worse, that he had catered to the national media, enhancing his own image by discussing the state's problems with outsiders. By Arnall's own estimation, his political career ended when he decided to abide by a 1945 federal court decision that invalidated Georgia's white-voters-only primary elections. Arnall left politics in 1947, returning briefly in 1966 for a spirited, but unsuccessful, primary bid for governor. Written with Ellis Arnall's full cooperation and filled with fascinating details of the final days of Old South politics, this book recounts the political career of one of the region's most accomplished and energetic leaders. The Politics of Change in Georgia is based on the former governor's speeches and public writings, critical and supportive newspapers accounts, and interviews both with Arnall and with other prominent Georgians such as Herman E. Talmadge, S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr., Lester G. Maddox, Carl E. Sanders, Jr., James H. Gray, Sr., Howard H. Callaway, and Ivan Allen, Jr.
Nevada & Other State Greats
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556098219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Memoirs of Georgia
Author: The Cottage Cyclopedia of History and Biography
Author: Edward M. PiercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description