Samuel A. Massell Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served from 1970 to 1974 as the 53rd mayor of Atlanta,Georgia. He was the first Jewish mayor in the city's history and the most recent non-black mayor of Atlanta.
Robert Michael Franklin Jr. is an American author,theologian,ordained minister,and academic administrator who served as the tenth president of Morehouse College from 2007 to 2012. Franklin is a visiting scholar in residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute. In January 2014,he became director of the religion program at the Chautauqua Institution.
Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr. is an American politician from Baltimore,Maryland,who once served in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Baltimore City Council and was a candidate in the 2007 mayoral election.
A municipal election in the City of Atlanta was held on Tuesday,November 3,2009. Atlanta is the capital of the state of Georgia and is the largest city in Georgia and is the center of the Atlanta metropolitan area,the largest metropolitan area in the South.
Providence Village is a new town in Denton County,Texas,United States. Composed largely of a master-planned community,it includes approximately 1,700 homes and 5,750 people. At the time of the 2010 census,the town had not yet incorporated,and was instead listed by the U.S. Census Bureau as the "Providence" census-designated place,with a population of 4,786.
Mary Norwood is an American businesswoman and politician who is a member of the Atlanta City Council. She was a candidate for mayor of Atlanta in 2009 and 2017. In both campaigns she advanced to the runoff,but respectively lost to Kasim Reed and Keisha Lance Bottoms by narrow margins. In addition to her mayoral runs,she represented city-wide posts on the Atlanta City Council from 2002 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018. She resides in the Tuxedo Park neighborhood of Atlanta's Buckhead community.
Kwanza Hall is an American politician and businessman who briefly served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district. He previously served as a member of the Atlanta City Council for the 2nd district. He was first elected in 2005 and re-elected without opposition in 2009. He represented the neighborhoods of Atlantic Station,Castleberry Hill,Downtown,Home Park,Inman Park,the Marietta Artery,Sweet Auburn and the Martin Luther King Historic District,Midtown,Poncey-Highland,and the Old Fourth Ward. He opted to not run for re-election in 2017,and was a candidate in the 2017 Atlanta mayoral election.
The 1973 Atlanta mayoral election was held on October 16,1973,in Atlanta,Georgia. Vice Mayor Maynard Jackson was elected as the city's first African-American mayor,defeating incumbent Mayor Sam Massell.
Mable Able Thomas is an American politician serving as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 56. She previously represented District 55,which includes areas immediately west and southwest of Downtown Atlanta and areas west and northwest of Midtown Atlanta.
Keisha Sean Waites is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A Democrat,she served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2012 to 2017,representing southeast Atlanta,College Park,East Point,Hapeville,Forest Park,Hartsfield Jackson Airport,Porsche Headquarters and parts of Clayton and DeKalb counties.
Cathy Woolard is an American politician who served as a member of the Atlanta City Council for District 6 from November 1998 to 2002,and as President of the Council from 2002 to 2004. When she began her term in 1997,she was the first openly-gay elected official in Georgia history,and she was the first woman to be President of the Council.
Dewey Loren McClain is an American former professional football player,labor leader,and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,McClain serves in the Georgia House of Representatives,representing the 100th district.
The 2017 Atlanta mayoral election occurred on November 7,2017,with a runoff election held on December 5,2017. Incumbent mayor Kasim Reed,a member of the Democratic Party who had been in office since 2010,was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits.
The 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3,2020,and on January 5,2021,to elect the Class II member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue in the runoff election. The general election was held concurrently with the 2020 presidential election,as well as with other elections to the Senate,elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American attorney and politician who served as the 60th mayor of Atlanta,Georgia,from 2018 to 2022. She was elected mayor in 2017. Before becoming mayor,she was a member of the Atlanta City Council,representing part of Southwest Atlanta. Bottoms did not run for a second term as mayor. President Joe Biden nominated Bottoms as vice chair of civic engagement and voter protection at the DNC for the 2021–2025 term. In June 2022,Bottoms joined the Biden administration as senior advisor and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement where she served until February 2023.
Nikema Natassha Williams is an American politician and political executive serving as the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district. The district includes almost three-fourths of Atlanta. She was a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district before her House campaign. She is also the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia. Williams served as one of 16 electors for Georgia in the Electoral College following the 2020 United States presidential election.
Richard Dean McCormick is an American politician and physician. He has represented Georgia's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia were held on November 8,2022,to elect the 14 U.S. representatives from the state of Georgia,one from each of the state's congressional districts. The elections coincided with the Georgia gubernatorial election,as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives,elections to the U.S. Senate,and various state and local elections.
A special election filled the remainder of the term in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district in the 116th United States Congress. Incumbent Representative John Lewis,who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019,died on July 17,2020 during his 17th term.
The 2022 Georgia Secretary of State election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the Secretary of State of Georgia. Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won re-election to a second term. Raffensperger emerged as a major national figure in late 2020 when he faced significant pressure from President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The party primary elections took place on May 24,with runoffs scheduled for June 21. President Trump had been taped in a phone call asking Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes," the exact number needed for Trump to carry the state.
