Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon and bordered on the east by the Oconee River. The rapid current of the river here made this an attractive location to build a city. It was the capital of Georgia from 1804 to 1868,including during the American Civil War. Milledgeville was preceded as the capital city by Louisville and was succeeded by Atlanta,the current capital. Today U.S. Highway 441 connects Milledgeville to Madison,Athens,and Dublin.
Athens is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Downtown Athens lies about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The University of Georgia,the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution,is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991,after a vote the preceding year,the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County,referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County where it is the county seat.
The Georgia Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Georgia and one of the two major political parties. It is the current favored party in the state and is chaired by Joshua McKoon.
Wilson Lumpkin was an American planter,attorney,and politician. He served two terms as the governor of Georgia,from 1831 to 1835,in the period of Indian Removal of the Creek and Cherokee peoples to Indian Territory to make way for development of their lands by European Americans. He also served in the state house,and as a United States representative and US Senator. He ran from Clarke County,Georgia,in the northeast part of the state.
Allen Daniel Candler,was a Georgia state legislator,U.S. Representative and the 56th Governor of Georgia.
William Bailey Lamar was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Florida from 1903 to 1909.
John L. Ray is a lawyer and Democratic politician in Washington,D.C.
Kenneth (Ken) B. Hodges III is a Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the former Dougherty County District Attorney and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Georgia in 2010. In 2015,Hodges started his own law firm,Ken Hodges Law,based out of Atlanta and Albany. Hodges won an open seat in a contested race on the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2018,earning nearly 70% of the state-wide vote.
Heidi Davison is an American politician from Georgia,U.S.,and is the former mayor of Athens,Georgia. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Nancy Denson is an American politician who served as mayor of U.S. city of Athens,Georgia,from 2011 to 2019. First elected mayor in 2010 and re-elected in 2014,Denson has been in public service since 1980 starting as an Athens City Council member.
Spencer Robert Frye serves in the Georgia General Assembly as the state representative for Georgia House District 122. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
David W. Coulter is an American politician serving as the County Executive of Oakland County,Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,Coulter previously served as the mayor of Ferndale,Michigan from 2011 to 2019,and as a member of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners from 2002 to 2010.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the U.S. Senate to represent the state of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock won his first full term in office,defeating Republican former football player Herschel Walker. Under Georgia's two-round system,Warnock was re-elected in a runoff election on December 6 after neither candidate received over 50% of the vote on November 8.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia were held on November 3,2020,to elect the 14 U.S. representatives from the state of Georgia,one from each of the state's 14 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The Athens Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial near Barber Creek in Athens,Georgia,United States. It is a Carrara marble obelisk mounted on a granite foundation engraved with names of the city's soldiers who were killed during the American Civil War. It was formerly located in the median strip of Broad Street in the Downtown Local Historic District of Athens until being removed in 2020 and being placed at its current site in 2021.
Isaac Gregory Bryan is an American politician serving as a Member of the California State Assembly where he represents the 55th district,which includes much of South Central Los Angeles. Bryan was previously the executive director of the University of California Los Angeles's Black Policy Project,head of the Public Policy Division for the Million Dollar Hoods Project,and served as the Director of Public Policy for the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center. From July to November 2023,he served as Assembly Majority Leader.
Several elections took place in the U.S. state of Georgia in 2022. The general election was held on November 8,2022. A runoff election for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate was held on December 6,2022. The runoff was scheduled because none of the candidates for Senate received 50% of the statewide vote in the general election. In addition to the Senate seat,all of Georgia's seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election. Also up for election were all of Georgia's executive officers and legislative seats,as well as one seat on the Georgia Public Service Commission. The Republican Party decisively won every single statewide office in Georgia except for the Federal Senate race which narrowly went Democratic in 2022.
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 early January,2021 when he faced significant pressure from then-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. 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.
Linnentown was a Black neighborhood in Athens,Georgia that was destroyed in the 1960s by an urban renewal project of the University of Georgia (UGA) and the city government of Athens. Comprising an area of 22 acres,the neighborhood had about fifty families who were forced out,via eminent domain,to make room for student housing for UGA;the dormitories,Russell Hall,Creswell Hall,and Brumby Hall now stand on the site. UGA associate professor of Geography,Jerry Shannon,estimates that the combination of undervaluing the property at the time of sale and forcing residents into areas "of the city where property values have not climbed as quickly" has cost residents over $5 million of generational wealth.
Mariah Parker,also known by the stage name Linqua Franqa,is an American rapper and labor organizer. Based in Georgia,they served as the District 2 County Commissioner for Athens-Clarke County from 2018 to 2022.
