128th Georgia General Assembly

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128th Georgia General Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body Georgia General Assembly
Meeting place Capitol Building - Atlanta
Senate
Members54
President of the Senate Peter Zack Geer
Party control Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Members180
Speaker of the House George T. Smith
Party control Democratic Party
Sessions
1stJanuary 11, 1965 (1965-01-11) – January 22, 1965 (1965-01-22)
2ndJanuary 10, 1966 (1966-01-10) – February 18, 1966 (1966-02-18)
Special sessions
1stFebruary 8, 1965 (1965-02-08) – March 12, 1965 (1965-03-12)

The 128th Georgia General Assembly convened its first session on January 13, 1965, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. The 128th Georgia General Assembly succeeded the 127th and served as the precedent for the 129th in 1967.

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Governor Carl Sanders, who was elected in 1962 as the first governor elected by popular vote since 1908, spearheaded a massive reapportionment of Georgia's General Assembly and 10 U.S. Congressional districts, providing more proportional representation to the state's urban areas. [1] This, as well as passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 had opened voter registration to blacks, saw eleven African Americans elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in special elections in 1965 and 1966. By ending the disfranchisement of blacks through discriminatory voter registration, African Americans regained the ability to vote and entered the political process. [2] This was the first time that African-Americans had sat in the House since W. H. Rogers of McIntosh resigned his seat in 1907 during the 99th Assembly. Among them were six from Atlanta (William Alexander, Julian Bond, Benjamin D. Brown, Julius C. Daugherty Sr., J. D. Grier, Grace Towns Hamilton, John Hood) and one each from Columbus (Albert Thompson) and Augusta (Richard Dent). Horace T. Ward also joined Leroy Johnson as the second African-American in the State Senate.

Controversy

On January 10, 1966, Georgia state representatives voted 184–12 not to seat Julian Bond, one of the eleven African-American members, because he had publicly endorsed SNCC's policy regarding opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. [3] They disliked his stated sympathy for persons who were "unwilling to respond to a military draft". [4] A three-judge panel on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled in a 2–1 decision that the Georgia House had not violated any of Bond's constitutional rights. In 1966, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 9–0 in the case of Bond v. Floyd (385 U.S. 116) that the Georgia House of Representatives had denied Bond his freedom of speech and was required to seat him.

Party standing

Senate

House

Officers

Senate

House

Members of the State Senate

DistrictSenatorPartyResidence
1 Frank O. Downing Democratic Savannah
2 William Searcey Democratic Savannah
3 Joseph Tribble Republican Savannah
4 Berry Avant Edenfield Democratic Statesboro
5 John M. Gayner, III Democratic Brunswick
6 Roscoe E. Dean Jr. Democratic Jesup
7 Frank Eldridge Jr. Democratic Waycross
8 Robert A. Rowan Democratic Enigma
9 Ford Spinks Democratic Tifton
10 William H. Flowers Democratic Thomasvile
11 Julian Webb Democratic Donalsonville
12 Al Holloway Democratic Albany
13 Martin Young Democratic Rebecca
14 Jimmy Carter Democratic Plains
15 A. Perry Gordy Republican Columbus
16 Ivey William Gregory Republican Columbus
17 John Thomas McKenzie Democratic Montezuma
18 Stanley Smith Democratic Perry
19 Roy Noble Democratic Vienna
20 Hugh Gillis Democratic Soperton
21 Roy G. Foster Republican Wadley
22 Rudolph Holley Democratic Augusta
23 Michael Padgett Independent McBean
24 Sam P. McGill Democratic Washington
25 Culver Kidd Jr. Democratic Milledgeville
26 John W. Adams III Republican Macon
27 Oliver Bateman Republican Macon
28 Robert H. Smalley Jr. Democratic Griffin
29 Render Hill Democratic Greenville
30 Lamar Plunkett Democratic Bowdon
31 Albert F. Moore Democratic Cedartown
32 Edward Kendrick Democratic Marietta
33 Kyle Yancey Democratic Austell
34 Standish Thompson Republican East Point
35 Frank E. Coggin Democratic Hapeville
36 Joe Salome Democratic Atlanta
37 James Wesberry Democratic Atlanta
38 Leroy Johnson Democratic Atlanta
39 Horace Ward Democratic Atlanta
40 Dan MacIntyre Republican Atlanta
41 Gene Sanders Republican Tucker
42 Ben F. Johnson Democratic Atlanta
43 Frank G. Miller Republican Decatur
44 Kenneth Kilpatrick Democratic Forest Park
45 Brooks Pennington Democratic Madison
46 Paul C. Broun Sr. Democratic Athens
47 Robert Lee Democratic Hartwell
48 J. Albert Minish Democratic Commerce
49 Erwin Owens Democratic Dahlonega
50 Robert Ballew Democratic Blue Ridge
51 Jack Fincher Democratic Canton
52 James Battle Hall Democratic Rome
53 Joseph Loggins Democratic Summerville
54 W.W. (Bill) Fincher, Jr. Democratic Chatsworth

Members of the House

DistrictRepresentativePartyResidence
1-1 Maddox Hale Democratic Trenton
1-2 Billy Shaw Abney Democratic LaFayette
1-3 Wayne Snow Jr. Democratic Chickamauga
2 Joe T. Clark Democratic Ringgold
3-1 Thomas M. Mitchell Democratic Dalton
3-2 Virgil T. Smith Democratic Dalton
3-3 Gerald H. Leonard Democratic Chatsworth
4 A.C. Duncan Democratic McCaysville
5 Carlton H. Colwell Democratic Blairsville
6 Fulton Lovell Democratic Clayton
7 James H. Floyd Democratic Trion
8 J. C. Maddox Democratic Calhoun
9 Charles B. Watkins Democratic Ellijay
10 James Otwell Democratic Cumming
11 Thomas Irvin Democratic Mt. Airy
12 Don C. Moore Democratic Toccoa
13-1 Sidney Lowrey Democratic Rome
13-2 Jerry Lee Minge Democratic Rome
13-3 Dick Starnes Democratic Rome
14-1 Joe Frank Harris Democratic Cartersville
14-2 David N. Vaughan Jr. Democratic Cartersville
15 Thomas A. Roach Democratic Ball Ground
16-1 Bill Williams Democratic Gainesville
16-2 Howard T. Overby Democratic Gainesville
16-3 Joe Terrell Wood Democratic Gainesville
17 Thomas Stovall Democratic Danielsville
18 A.T. Mauldin Democratic Carnesville
19 M. Parks Brown Democratic Hartwell
20-1 J. Harvey Moore Democratic Cedartown
20-2 Nathan D. Dean Democratic Rockmart
21 George Bagby Democratic Dallas
22-1 Earl P. Story Democratic Lawrenceville
22-2 Tom O. Watson Democratic Lawrenceville
23 James W. Paris Democratic Winder
24 Mac Barber Democratic Commerce
25 Albert Sidney Johnson, Sr. Democratic Elberton
26 Tom Murphy Democratic Bremen
27 Kent Dickinson Democratic Douglasville
28 J.T. Byrd Democratic Loganville
29-1 Chapelle Matthews Democratic Athens
29-2 W. Randall Bedgood Democratic Athens
30 Hubert H. Wells Democratic Watkinsville
31 Ben B. Ross Democratic Lincolnton
32-1 William Wiggins Democratic Carollton
32-2 Herschel L. Reid Democratic Villa Rica
33-1 D.B. Blalock Democratic Newnan
33-2 Truitt Davis Democratic Franklin
34-1 Quimby Melton Democratic Griffin
34-2 George Clark Gaissert Republican Griffin
35-1 Bill Lee Democratic Forest Park
35-2 Arch Gray Democratic Riverdale
35-3 A. Hewlette Harrell Democratic Fayetteville
36 Ray Tucker Democratic McDonough
37 Otis Spillers Democratic Covington
38 E. Roy Lambert Democratic Madison
39 Asa Marshall Democratic Eatonton
40 Bobby Ware Johnson Democratic Warrenton
41 Glenn Phillips Democratic Harlem
42-1 J. Crawford Ware Democratic Hoganville
42-2 Harry Spikes Democratic LaGrange
43 Jimmy NeSmith Democratic Manchester
44 J.R. Smith Democratic Barnesville
45 Harold G. Clarke Democratic Forsyth
46 John Hadaway Democratic Hillsboro
47-1 J. Floyd Harrington Democratic Milledgeville
47-2 Phillip Chandler Democratic Milledgeville
48-1 Tom C. Carr Democratic Sandersville
48-2 Emory Rowland Democratic Wrightsville
58 Carl Savage Democratic Montezuma
59-1 Paul Stalnaker Democratic Warner Robins
59-2 David Peterson Democratic Kathleen
60-1 Bill Knight Democratic Dexter
60-2 W. Herschel Lovett Democratic Dublin
61 Joe Underwood Democratic Mount Vernon
62 John Collins Democratic Vidalia
63 Hines Brantley Democratic Metter
64-1 W. Jones Lane Democratic Statesboro
64-2 Paul E. Nessmith Democratic Statesboro
65 J. Terrell Webb Republican Springfield
66 Jake Dailey Democratic Cuthbert
67 Ed Fulford Democratic Dawson
68-1 William Blair Democratic Americus
68-2 Janet Merritt Democratic Americus
69-1 Howard H. Rainey Democratic Cordele
69-2 Rooney Bowen Democratic Vienna
70 Frank Holder Democratic Eastman
71 John Henry Anderson Democratic Hawkinsville
72 Brad Dorminy Democratic Fitzgerald
73 Norman Doster Democratic Rochelle
74 Curtis C. Herndon Democratic Surrency
75 Dewey Rush Democratic Glennville
76 Charles M. Jones Democratic Hinesville
77 Glenn Thomas Democratic Jesup
78 W. Harvey Jordan Democratic Leary
79-1 George Busbee Democratic Albany
79-2 Colquitt Odom Democratic Albany
79-3 Dick Hutchinson Democratic Albany
79-4 William Spencer Lee Democratic Albany
80 William Crowe Democratic Sylvester
81 Harry Mixon Democratic Ocilla
82 George Williams Democratic Axson
83-1 Ottis Sweat Democratic Waycross
83-2 Harry Dixon Democratic Waycross
84 Francis Houston Democratic Blackshear
85-1 Reid W. Harris Democratic St. Simons
85-2 Alan Smith Democratic Brunswick
86 William Mobley Howell Democratic Blakely
87 J.O. Brackin Democratic Iron City
88 Marcus Collins Democratic Pelham
89-1 Hubert Dollar Democratic Brainbridge
89-2 J. Willis Conger Democratic Bainbridge
Anthony Cato Democratic Bainbridge
90 George T. Smith Democratic Cairo
91 James L. Conner Democratic Hazlehurst
92-1 Henry Russell Democratic Boston
92-2 Jamie Oglesby Republican Thomasville
93 Henry Allen Democratic Tifton
94-1 David Newton Democratic Norman Park
94-2 Dorsey Matthews Democratic Moultrie
95-1 Berry Sullivan Democratic Valdosta
95-2 Hurram Barfield Democratic Hahira
95-3 James Bennett Democratic Valdosta
96 Allen Parrish Democratic Adel
97 Robert Pafford Democratic Lakeland
98 Robert Harrison Democratic St. Marys
99 Henry L. Reaves Democratic Quitman
100 William Steis Democratic Hamilton
101-1 Gerald Howard Democratic Marietta
101-2 Hugh McDaniel Democratic Smyrna
102-1 Joe Wilson Democratic Marietta
102-2 Jack Henderson Democratic Marietta
103 Bennie Jordan Republican Mableton
104-1 William Snellings Democratic Augusta
104-2 James Hull Democratic Augusta
105-1 R. Luke DeLong Republican Augusta
105-2 John H. Sherman Democratic Augusta
106-1 William M. Fleming Democratic Augusta
106-2 Leroy Simkins Republican Augusta
107 James Elliott Republican Macon
108 Wallace Bryant Republican Macon
109-1 Giles Paul Jones Republican Macon
109-2 George Knapp Republican Macon
109-3 John F. Stewart Republican Macon
109-4 Roger W. Wilson Republican Macon
110-1 Charles Berry Democratic Columbus
110-2 Albert Thompson Democratic Columbus
111-1 Lawrence Shields Democratic Columbus
111-2 Roscoe Thompson Democratic Columbus
112-1 Mac Pickard Democratic Columbus
112-2 Milton Jones Democratic Columbus
112-3 Jack Brinkley Democratic Columbus
113-1 Arthur M. Gignilliat Jr. Democratic Savannah
113-2 Eugene Powers Democratic Savannah
114-1 Alan Gaynor Democratic Savannah
114-2 W. Lance Smith Democratic Savannah
115-1 John Tye Democratic Savannah
115-2 Albert Kiley Democratic Savannah
116-1 Dick Richardson Democratic Savannah
116-2 Lionel Drew Democratic Savannah
116-3 Arthur Funk Democratic Savannah
117-1 Clarence R. Vaughn Jr. Democratic Conyers
117-2 Tom Palmer Democratic Chamblee
117-3 W.B. Malone Democratic Chamblee
117-4 George H. Carley Democratic Stone Mountain
118-1 J. Robin Harris Democratic Decatur
118-2 Bob Farrar Democratic Avondale Estates
118-3 Robert Walling Democratic Atlanta
118-4 Elliott Levitas Democratic Atlanta
119-1 Jack Bean Republican Decatur
119-2 Robert Evensen Republican Decatur, Georgia
119-3 James Westlake Republican Ellenwood
119-4 Joseph Higginbotham Republican Decatur
120 Charlie Brown Democratic Atlanta
121 Guy Hill Democratic Atlanta
122 Young Longing Democratic Fairburn
123-1 Rodney Mims Cook Sr. Republican Atlanta
123-2 Jack Etheridge Democratic Atlanta
123-3 Shag Cates Democratic Atlanta
124 John Hood Democratic Atlanta
125 George Adams Democratic Atlanta
126 Frank Lea Democratic Hapeville
127 William Cox Democratic Atlanta
128 Thomas Dillon Democratic Atlanta
129 Charles L. Carnes Democratic Atlanta
130 Nick Lambros Democratic Atlanta
131 Bill Sims Democratic Atlanta
132 J. D. Grier Democratic Atlanta
133 William Alexander Democratic Atlanta
134 Julius C. Daughtery Sr. Democratic Atlanta
135 Benjamin D. Brown Democratic Atlanta
136 Julian Bond Democratic Atlanta
137 Grace Towns Hamilton Democratic Atlanta
138 Devereaux McClatchey Democratic Atlanta
139 Herb Hawkins Democratic Roswell
140 Kiliaen Townsend Republican Atlanta
141 Michael J. Egan Republican Atlanta

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cook, James F. (September 12, 2002). "Carl Sanders". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  2. ↑ Timothy Crimmins, Anne H. Farrisee; University of Georgia Press (2007). Democracy Restored: A History of the Georgia State Capitol. pp. 140–144. ISBN   978-0820329116.
  3. ↑ "Julian Bond Only Candidate For Vacant Post". Rome News-Tribune. February 8, 1966. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ The World Almanac 1967, pp. 54–55
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