Georgia's 15th Senate district

Georgia's 15th State Senate district
Senator	Ed Harbison D – Columbus
Demographics	34.07%  White 52.31%  Black 7.57%  Hispanic 1.31%  Asian 0.23%  Native American 0.27%  Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.44% Other 4.97%  Multiracial
Population (2020)  • Voting age	189,446 [1] 144,506

District 15 of the Georgia Senate is a district located in West and Southwest Georgia, anchored in Columbus.

The district includes most of Columbus-Muscogee County as well as all of Chattahoochee, Macon, Marion, Schley, Talbot, and Taylor counties. The district includes Fort Benning.

The current senator is Ed Harbison, a Democrat from Columbus first elected in 1992. ^[2]

List of state senators

Senator	Tenure	Party	Counties	Notes	Ref
William H. Crawford	1845		Lee, Sumter
William A. Maxwell	1847
Jared Tomlinson	1849–1850
Addison E. Harris	1851–1852		Lee,
John McRae (Sr of Appling)	1861–1863		Irwin, Montgomery, Telfair
D. M. McRae	1863–1865
T. L. Wilcox	1865–1866
Walter T. McArthur	1868–1869
D. W. Cameron	1871–1874
T. D. Wilcox	1875–1877; 1882–1883
Jacob C. Clements	1878–1879
Jesse M. Wall	1879
Thomas Jefferson Smith	1880–1881
Allen McArthur	1884–1885
John D. McLeod	1886–1887
Manasseh Henderson	1888–1889
John McRae (Jr of Irwin?)	1890–1891
T. J. Smith	1892–1893
George K. Wilcox	1894–1895
John A. Wooten	1896–1897
Eli K. Wilcox	1898–1899
B. E. Wilcox	1900–1901
Gabriel M. Clements	1902–1904
George M. Wilcox	1905–1906
James Andrew Jackson Henderson	1907–1908		Ben Hill, Dodge, Irwin, Montgomery, Telfair
Marcus B. Calhoun	1909–1910		Ben Hill, Dodge, Irwin, Montgomery, Telfair
W. S. Mann	1911–1912		Ben Hill, Dodge, Irwin, Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler
O. H. Elkins	1913–1914		Ben Hill, Dodge, Irwin, Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler
M. J. Paulk	1915–1917
David Roscoe Peacock	1917
C. H. Peacock	1918		Ben Hill, Dodge, Irwin, Montgomery, Telfair, Webster
John C. Calhoun	1919–1920		Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler
D. C. Colson	1921–1922
George W. Lankford	1923–1924; 1929–1931
John Martin Dasher McGregor	1925–1926
Reese Frederick Jordan	1927; 1939–1940
Hugh Peterson Jr.	1931
Robert Ernest Rivers	1933
James Ellis Pope	1935
William James Peterson	1937–1938; 1943–1944
Austus Led Mosley	1941–1942
Guy Orlando Stone	1945–1946
James F. Darby Sr.	1947–1948			Died in office
John C. Peterson	1949–1950; 1961–1962
Wallace Adams	1951–1952
Steve M. Hall	1953–1955
Walter B. Morrison	1955–1956
Wallace Adams	1957–1958
James F. Darby Jr.	1948, 1959–1960
A. Perry Gordy II	1963–1965	Republican	Muscogee	Resigned
I.W. "Bill" Gregory	1965–1969	Republican	Muscogee
Floyd Hudgins	1969–1989	Democrat	Muscogee
Gary Parker	1989–1991	Democrat	Muscogee	First African-American to represent the district
Sanford Bishop	1991–1993	Democrat	Muscogee
Ed Harbison	1993–present	Democrat	Muscogee

References

1. "Georgia Senate Districts 2023" (PDF). Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office. 2023. Retrieved October 22, 2025.
2. "Georgia General Assembly". www.legis.ga.gov. Retrieved October 23, 2025.