126th Georgia General Assembly

The 126th Georgia General Assembly convened its first session in January 1963, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. The members were elected in the 1960 Georgia Senate and Georgia House elections. ^{[1] [2]} It was the last all-white General Assembly in member composition.

126th Georgia General Assembly
← 126th 128th →
Great Seal of the State of Georgia
Overview
Legislative body	Georgia General Assembly
Meeting place	Capitol Building - Atlanta
Senate
Members	54
President of the Senate	Garland T. Byrd
Party control	Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Members	205
Speaker of the House	George L. Smith
Party control	Democratic Party
Sessions
1st 1961 – 1961 2nd 1962 – 1962

Members of the Senate

District	Senator	Party	Residence
1	Spence Grayson	Democratic	Savannah
2	Charles Warnell		Pembroke
3	W. C. Long		Nahunta
4	Oscar E. Raynor		Folkston
5	W. K. Ponsell		Waycross
6	Dan J. DeLoach		Statenville
7	J. Roland Clanton		Thomasville
8	J. Willis Conger		Bainbridge
9	Charles E. Dows		Edison
10	Jack Bell		Leesburg
11	J. T. Dailey		Cuthbert
12	Robert McKenzie		Georgetown
13	John Thomas McKenzie		Montezuma
14	James M. Dykes		Cochran
15	John C. Peterson		Ailey
16	William Malcolm Towson		Dublin
17	A. Sid Newton		Millen
18	Carl Sanders		Augusta
19	W. Tom Veazey		Warrenton
20	Floyd Harrington		Milledgeville
21	J. W. Claxton		Wrightsville
22	Robert Ogden Persons Sr		Forsyth
23	W. T. Jones		Roberta
24	Harry C. Jackson		Columbus
25	Elisha Mullins Whisnant		Hamilton
26	Robert H. Smalley Jr.		Griffin
27	Talmadge Harden		Commerce
28	E. R. Lambert		Madison
29	Edgar D. Clary Jr		Harlem
30	A. F. Seagraves		Hull
31	C. L. Ayers		Toccoa
32	Erwin Owens		Dahlonega
33	Howard Overby		Gainesville
34	W. Hugh McWhorter		Decatur
35	Eugene Kelly		Monroe
36	D. B. Blalock		Newnan
37	Earl Staples		Carrollton
38	Samuel U. Braly		Dallas
39	J. L. White		Douglasville
40	Zell Miller		Young Harris
41	Charles Emerson Waters		Ellijay
42	William Ingram		Cartersville
43	Erwin Mitchell		Dalton
44	Gaston V. Green		Rising Fawn
45	Otto Griner		Ocilla
46	O. D. Johnson		Blackshear
47	Sam J. Gardner Jr.		Moultrie
48	Elden Mathews		Cordele
49	Ed Perry		Claxton
50	Hamilton McWhorter Jr		Lexington
51	Mark Fitzpatrick		Jeffersonville
52	Charlie Brown		Atlanta
53	Dan Hart		Quitman
54	Gordon Knox		Hazlehurst

See also

• List of Georgia state legislatures

References

1. "Members of the General Assembly of Georgia, State Senate and House of Representatives, second session of term 1961-62 [Jan. 1962] - Digital Library of Georgia". dlg.usg.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-04.
2. "Manual of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia, 1961-1962 - Digital Library of Georgia". dlg.usg.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-04.