Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lawyer,author,and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career,he served twice as Senate Majority Leader,and also,alternately,Senate Minority Leader. In 2003,he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party,he was the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012,Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.
John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served in the Georgia legislature and the United States House of Representatives.
John Nathan Deal is an American politician and former lawyer who served as the 82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. A Republican,he previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
John Andrew Boehner is a retired American politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served 13 terms as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton.
Ellis Gibbs Arnall was an American politician who served as the 69th Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. A liberal Democrat,he helped lead efforts to abolish the poll tax and to reduce Georgia's voting age to 18. Following his departure from office,he became a highly successful attorney and businessman.
Thomas M. Reynolds is an American politician from the U.S. state of New York,formerly representing the state's 27th and 26th Congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives. Reynolds was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,the official Republican House campaign organization,for the 2006 election cycle. He retired amid scandal at the end of the 110th Congress. He was cleared of any wrongdoing by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Chris Lee was elected to succeed him.
Mack Francis Mattingly is an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a United States senator from Georgia,the first Republican to have served in the U.S. Senate from that state since Reconstruction.
Robert Henry Michel was an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years. He represented central Illinois' 18th congressional district,and was the GOP leader in the House,serving as House Minority Leader during his last 14 years in Congress (1981–1995).
The U.S. House Committee on Ethics,often known simply as the Ethics Committee,is one of the committees of the United States House of Representatives. Prior to the 112th Congress it was known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
Squire Patton Boggs is an international law firm with over 40 offices in 20 countries. It was formed in 2014 by the merger of multinational law firm Squire Sanders with Washington,D.C. based Patton Boggs. It is one of the largest law firms in the world by total headcount and gross revenue,twelfth largest firm in the UK by revenue,and one of the top 12 by number of countries occupied.
Thomas Bailey Murphy was an attorney and American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. Murphy was the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1973 until his defeat in the general election of 2002,making him the third longest serving House Speaker of any U.S. state legislature,behind only Michael Madigan of Illinois and Solomon Blatt of South Carolina. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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 and the current favored party in the state and is currently chaired by David Shafer.
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.
The 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1966. After an election that exposed divisions within the Georgia Democratic Party,segregationist Democrat Lester Maddox was elected Governor of Georgia. The voting also brought future President Jimmy Carter to statewide prominence for the first time. The election was very close;Republican candidate Bo Callaway won a plurality of the popular vote,but lost the contingent election in the Georgia General Assembly to Maddox.
McKenna Long &Aldridge LLP (MLA) was a United States-based international law and public policy firm with more than 575 attorneys and public policy advisors in 15 offices and 13 markets. The firm provided legal,business,and public policy solutions in the areas of complex litigation,corporate law,environment,energy,family wealth,finance,insurance,global infrastructure,government contracts,health care,intellectual property,technology,and real estate.
The 1974 United States House of Representatives election in Georgia's 6th congressional district was the election for the Representative of Georgia's 6th district to the United States House of Representatives which was held on November 4,1974. This election is notable for being the beginning of a political career of a then-little known professor from the University of West Georgia and future Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.
The Hastert Rule,also known as the "majority of the majority" rule,is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House. Under the doctrine,the Speaker will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports the bill.
Matthew Allen "Matt" Towery is an American political analyst and pollster,television commentator,attorney,and former Georgia state legislator.
Mark Burkhalter is an American politician and real estate developer who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011.
