| First Lady of Georgia | |
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| Residence | Georgia Governor's Mansion |
| Inaugural holder | Mary de Veaux |
| Website | Office of First Lady Marty Kemp |
First Lady of Georgia is the title held by the wife of the sitting governor of Georgia. The first lady serves as the official hostess of the Georgia Governor's Mansion.
The current first lady of Georgia is Marty Kemp, the wife of incumbent Governor Brian Kemp, who assumed office in 2019.
The position of the first lady is not an elected one, carries no official duties, and receives no salary. However, the first lady holds a highly visible position in state government. The role of the first lady is the host of the Georgia Governor's Mansion. She organizes and attends official ceremonies and functions of state either along with, or in place of, the governor.
It is common for the governor's spouse to select specific, non-political, causes to promote. For example former first lady Sandra Deal is known for advocating for literacy and education throughout the state, for which the Georgia Association of Broadcasters awarded her their 2016 "Georgian of the Year" award.
| Name | Took office | Left office | Spouse of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary de Veaux | 1775 | 1777 | Archibald Bulloch |
| 2 | Ann Bourne | 1777 | 1777 | Button Gwinnett |
| 3 | Marguerite Dupuis, Annie Unselt, third wife (name unknown) | 1777 | 1778 | John A. Treutlen |
| 4 | Hannah Bryan | 1778 | 1778 | John Houstoun |
| 5 | Hannah Wilkinson | 1779 | 1779 | John Wereat |
| 6 | Dorothy Camber | 1779 | 1780 | George Walton |
| 7 | unknown | 1780 | 1780 | Richard Howley |
| 8 | Jane Germany, Elizabeth Darden | 1780 | 1780 | Stephen Heard |
| 9 | Elizabeth Lewis, Elizabeth Dunham, Elizabeth McLean | 1781 | 1782 | Nathan Brownson |
| 10 | first wife unknown; remarried Mary Deborah Spencer | 1782 | 1783 | John Martin |
| 11 | Abigail Burr, Mary Osborne | 1783 | 1784 | Lyman Hall |
| 12 | Hannah Bryan | 1784 | 1785 | John Houstoun |
| 13 | Elizabeth Rae | 1785 | 1786 | Samuel Elbert  |
| 14 | Sarah Gibbons | 1786 | 1787 | Edward Telfair |
| 15 | Anne Paul, Margaret (Cunningham) Reed, Mary Flowers Carpenter | 1787 | 1788 | George Mathews |
| 16 | Sarah Gibbons | 1789 | 1793 | Edward Telfair |
| 17 | Sarah Howe | 1788 | 1789 | George Handley |
| 18 | Miss Williams (first name unknown) | 1796 | 1798 | Jared Irwin |
| 19 | Mary Charlotte Young | 1795 | 1801 | James Jackson |
| 20 | Ann Lewis | 1801 | 1801 | David Emanuel |
| 21 | Harriet Fenwick | 1801 | 1802 | Josiah Tattnall |
| 22 | Martha Galphin, Ann Lamar | 1802 | 1806 | John Milledge |
| 23 | Miss Williams (first name unknown) | 1806 | 1809 | Jared Irwin |
| 24 | Jane Mills | 1809 | 1813 | David Brydie Mitchell |
| 25 | Ann Adams Smith | 1813 | 1815 | Peter Early |
| 26 | Jane Mills | 1815 | 1817 | David Brydie Mitchell |
| 27 | Mary Battle | 1817 | 1819 | William Rabun |
| 28 | Anna Twinning | 1819 | 1819 | Matthew Talbot |
| 29 | Nancy Williamson | 1819 | 1823 | John Clark |
| 30 | Anne St. Clair McCormick, Anne Carter | 1823 | 1827 | George M. Troup |
| 31 | Clara Meigs | 1827 | 1829 | John Forsyth |
| 32 | Eliza Frances Grattan | 1829 | 1831 | George Rockingham Gilmer |
| 33 | Elizabeth Walker, Annis Hopkins | 1831 | 1835 | Wilson Lumpkin |
| 34 | Charlotte Kirkley, Elizabeth Sarah (Jackson) Hargrove, Sophia E. Kerr | 1835 | 1837 | William Schley |
| 35 | Eliza Frances Grattan | 1829 | 1831 | George Rockingham Gilmer |
| 36 | Anne Franklin, Elizabeth (Roane) Ruffin | 1839 | 1843 | Charles James McDonald |
| 37 | Mary Ann McIntosh | 1843 | 1847 | George W. Crawford |
| 38 | Margaret Jane Campbell, Mary Winston-Jones | 1847 | 1851 | George W. Towns |
| 39 | Mary Ann Lamar | 1851 | 1853 | Howell Cobb |
| 40 | Ann Polk Walker | 1853 | 1857 | Herschel Vespasian Johnson |
| 41 | Elizabeth Grisham | 1857 | 1865 | Joseph Emerson Brown  |
| 42 | Ann Harris | 1865 | 1865 | James Johnson |
| 43 | Sarah Jones, Emily Barnes | 1865 | 1868 | Charles Jones Jenkins |
| 44 | Helen Lydia Moore | 1868 | 1868 | Thomas Howard Ruger |
| 45 | Marie Salisbury | 1868 | 1871 | Rufus Brown Bullock |
| 46 | Sarah H. Semmes | 1871 | 1872 | Benjamin F. Conley |
| 47 | Hester A. Brown, Sarah Marshall Welborn | 1872 | 1877 | James Milton Smith |
| 48 | Dorothy Tarver, Sarah Tarver | 1877 | 1882 | Alfred Holt Colquitt |
| 49 | never married | 1882 | 1883 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| 50 | Fannie Loyall, Susie T. Harris | 1883 | 1883 | James Boynton |
| 51 | Hester C. Felker | 1883 | 1886 | Henry Dickerson McDaniel |
| 52 | Fannie R. Haralson | 1886 | 1890 | John Brown Gordon |
| 53 | Martha Moss Neel | 1890 | 1894 | William J. Northen |
| 54 | Susan Cobb Milton | 1894 | 1898 | William Yates Atkinson  |
| 55 | Eugenia T. Williams | 1898 | 1902 | Allen D. Candler |
| 56 | Jessie Lee Spivey | 1902 | 1907 | Joseph M. Terrell |
| 57 | Marion "Birdie" Cobb | 1907 | 1909 | Hoke Smith  |
| 58 | Cora A. McCord | 1909 | 1911 | Joseph Mackey Brown |
| 59 | Marion "Birdie" Cobb | 1911 | 1911 | Hoke Smith |
| 60 | Sarah Frances Grant Jackson | 1911 | 1912 | John Marshall Slaton |
| 61 | Cora A. McCord | 1912 | 1913 | Joseph Mackey Brown |
| 62 | Sarah Frances Grant Jackson | 1913 | 1915 | John Marshall Slaton  |
| 63 | Sarah Gibbons | 1915 | 1917 | Nathaniel Edwin Harris |
| 64 | Mary Adair Wilkinson | 1917 | 1921 | Hugh Dorsey |
| 65 | Sarah Gibbons | 1921 | 1923 | Thomas W. Hardwick |
| 66 | Rosa Carter Matthewson | 1923 | 1927 | Clifford Walker |
| 67 | Emma Wiley Griffin | 1927 | 1931 | Lamartine Griffin Hardman |
| 68 | never married | 1931 | 1933 | Richard Russell, Jr. |
| 69 | Mattie (Thurmond) Peterson | 1933 | 1937 | Eugene Talmadge |
| 70 | Lucille Lashley | 1937 | 1941 | Eurith D. Rivers |
| 71 | Mattie (Thurmond) Peterson | 1941 | 1943 | Eugene Talmadge |
| 72 | Mildred Slemons | 1943 | 1947 | Ellis Arnall |
| 73 | Betty Shingler | 1947 | 1947 | Herman Eugene Talmadge |
| 74 | Ann Newton | 1947 | 1948 | Melvin E. Thompson |
| 75 | Betty Shingler | 1948 | 1955 | Herman Eugene Talmadge |
| 76 | Mary Elizabeth Smith, Laura Jane Gibson | 1955 | 1959 | Samuel Marvin Griffin |
| 77 | Sybil Elizabeth Russell | 1959 | 1963 | Ernest Vandiver |
| 78 | Betty Bird Foy | 1963 | 1967 | Carl Sanders |
| 79 | Virginia Cox | 1967 | 1971 | Lester Maddox |
| 80 | Rosalynn Smith | 1971 | 1975 | Jimmy Carter  |
| 81 | Mary Elizabeth Talbot | 1975 | 1983 | George Busbee |
| 82 | Elizabeth Carlock | 1983 | 1991 | Joe Frank Harris |
| 83 | Shirley Carver | 1991 | 1999 | Zell Miller |
| 84 | Marie Dobbs | 1999 | 2003 | Roy E. Barnes  |
| 85 | Mary Ruff | 2003 | 2011 | Sonny Perdue  |
| 86 | Sandra Deal | 2011 | 2019 | Nathan Deal  |
| 87 | Marty Kemp [1] | 2019 | present | Brian Kemp  |
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