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Georgia's 15th Senate district elects one member of the Georgia Senate. Its current state senator is Democrat Ed Harbison. [1]
Senator | Tenure | Party | Counties | Notes | Ref |
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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 |
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