Thomas Edward Watson was an American Populist and white supremacist politician,attorney,newspaper editor,and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party,articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business,bankers,railroads,Democratic President Grover Cleveland,and the Democratic Party. He was the nominee for vice president with Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 on the Populist ticket.
George Anthony Dondero was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan.
Frank Jefferson Horton was a United States representative from New York State.
Walter Franklin George was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Senate from 1955 to 1957.
James Edward Murray was an American politician and United States Senator from Montana,and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961.
Benjamin Harvey Hill was a politician who is credited with helping inaugurate Georgia's Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta on July 23,1868,in a speech that invoked the use of violence against the governor,the legislature,and freed people during Congressional Reconstruction. His career spanned state and national politics,and the Civil War. He served in the Georgia legislature in both houses. Although he had opposed secession in 1860,he represented Georgia as a Confederate senator during the conflict.
Henderson Lovelace Lanham was an American politician and lawyer.
John James Flynt Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for two congressional districts in Georgia from 1954 to 1979. Upon his retirement from the House,he was succeeded by future House Speaker Newt Gingrich,whom Flynt had narrowly defeated in the two previous elections.
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.
Standish Fletcher Thompson was an American lawyer,World War II veteran and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia.
Robert Lee Moore,also known as R. Lee Moore,was an American politician and lawyer from Georgia.
John William Jones was an American politician,planter,educator and physician. Born in Maryland and raised in Kentucky,Jones served one term in the United States Congress representing Georgia's 3rd congressional district,before resuming his careers as a planter and physician in Alabama as well as helped found two female seminaries before returning to Georgia. During the American Civil War,Jones accepted a commission as a surgeon in the Confederate States Army,and postwar taught medicine in Atlanta.
Benjamin Bentley Blackburn is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia who served from 1967 to 1975.
Thomas Cooper Evans was a three-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district. First elected to Congress in a close race amidst a Republican landslide,in a district that became less Republican through reapportionment,Evans defied expectations by winning re-election by increasingly large margins.
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.
Eugene Corbett Patterson,sometimes known as Gene Patterson,was an American journalist and civil rights activist. He was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
Barry Dean Loudermilk is an American politician from the state of Georgia who has been the U.S. representative from Georgia's 11th congressional district since 2015. The district covers a large slice of Atlanta's northern suburbs,including Marietta,Acworth and Smyrna,and a sliver of Atlanta itself.
Thomas A. Fanning executive chairman of Southern Company,the second largest utility company in the United States in terms of customer base,with 9 million gas and electric utility customers served by subsidiaries in nine states.
Nikema Natassha Williams is an American politician and political executive serving as the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district. The district includes almost three-fourths of Atlanta. She was a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district before her House campaign. She is also the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia. Williams served as one of 16 electors for Georgia in the Electoral College following the 2020 United States presidential election.
Andrew Scott Clyde is an American politician and gun store owner from the state of Georgia. A Republican,Clyde represents Georgia's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives,assuming office in 2021. The district serves a large swath of exurban and rural territory north of Atlanta,including Gainesville,Toccoa,Dawsonville,and Dahlonega.
