David Dean Rusk was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson,the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration. He had been a high government official in the 1940s and early 1950s,as well as the head of a leading foundation. He is cited as one of the two officers responsible for dividing the two Koreas at the 38th parallel.
Royston is a city in Franklin,Hart,and Madison counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 2,649 at the 2020 census.
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician,diplomat,and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor,Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement,serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics,serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia,United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration,and 55th Mayor of Atlanta. He was the first African American elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction,as well as one of the first two African Americans elected to Congress from the former Confederacy since Reconstruction,alongside Barbara Jordan of Texas. Since leaving office,Young has founded or served in many organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens,Georgia,United States. Chartered in 1785,it is the oldest public university in the United States. It is the flagship school of the University System of Georgia.
The University of Georgia School of Law is the law school of the University of Georgia,a public research university in Athens,Georgia. It was founded in 1859,making it one of the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation. Georgia Law accepted 14.77% of applicants for the class entering in 2023.
John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Georgia legislature and the United States House of Representatives.
Larry Dean Thompson is an American lawyer and law professor,who served as deputy Attorney General of the United States under United States President George W. Bush until August 2003.
Mack Francis Mattingly is an American diplomat and politician from Georgia who served as a member of the United States Senate for one term from 1981 to 1987. He was the first Republican to have served in the U.S. Senate from that state since the Reconstruction era,and was also the first Republican ever to have been elected to the United States Senate from Georgia by popular vote.
Donald Lee Hollowell was an American civil rights attorney during the Civil Rights Movement,in the state of Georgia. He successfully sued to integrate Atlanta's public schools,Georgia colleges,universities and public transit,freed Martin Luther King Jr. from prison,and mentored civil rights attorneys. The first black regional director of a federal agency,Hollowell is best remembered for his instrumental role in winning the desegregation of the University of Georgia in 1961. He is the subject of a 2010 documentary film,Donald L. Hollowell:Foot Soldier for Equal Justice.
Frederick Corbet "Fred" Davison was the President of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. He served in that capacity from 1967 until his resignation in 1986.
Henry Calvin Johnson Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is anchored in Atlanta's inner eastern suburbs,including Decatur,all of Rockdale County,Lithonia,Stone Mountain,Covington and a sliver of Atlanta itself. Johnson is one of only three Buddhists to have served in the United States Congress. The others are Senator Mazie Hirono and former Representative Colleen Hanabusa,both of Hawaii.
James Robert Jones is an American lawyer,diplomat,Democratic politician,a retired U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma,and a former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under President Bill Clinton.
George Washington "Buddy" Darden III is an American politician and lawyer from Georgia. He served in the state house and then for more than five terms as Congressman from Georgia. He served in his career as a legislator as a member of the Democratic Party.
John William Davis was an American politician and lawyer.
Calvin Smyre is an American politician who served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Elected in 1974,he was the longest-serving member of the Georgia Legislature. In May 2022,his nomination to serve as the United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic was withdrawn and he was instead nominated to serve as the United States ambassador to the Bahamas.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Richard Rahul Verma is an American diplomat,who serves as the deputy secretary of state for management and resources,a position he has held since April 5,2023. He served as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2009 to 2011,and as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. He served as the chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard,from 2020 to 2023,and as the vice chair of the Asia Group from 2017 to 2020,where he oversaw the firm's South Asia practice. He also practiced law for many years at Steptoe &Johnson LLP in Washington DC,and served as a Senior Counselor and Lead of the India and South Asia practice at Albright Stonebridge Group.
James Austin Scott is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for Georgia's 8th congressional district since 2011. The district stretches down the middle of the state,from just outside Macon to the Florida border. Scott served as a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. House.
Matthew Allen "Matt" Towery is an American political analyst,pollster,television commentator,attorney,and former Georgia state legislator.
Michael Stephen Wilensky is a politician and attorney who lives in Dunwoody,Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented District 79 in the Georgia House of Representatives,which is 100% in Dekalb County. State House District 79 consists of all of Dunwoody,part of Doraville,and a small piece of Chamblee. Wilensky defeated the Republican Party opponent,Ken Wright,on November 6,2018. Wilensky won his second election in 2020 and served a second term. In February 2022,Wilensky decided not to run for reelection.
