Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 2nd congressional district,serving since 1993. He became the dean of Georgia's congressional delegation after the death of John Lewis. A member of the Blue Dog Coalition,he belongs to the conservative faction of the Democratic Party. His district is in southwestern Georgia and includes Albany,Thomasville,and most of Columbus and Macon.
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.
Henry Calvin Johnson Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is anchored in Atlanta's inner eastern suburbs,including Decatur,all of Rockdale County,Lithonia,Stone Mountain,Covington and a sliver of Atlanta itself. Johnson is one of only three Buddhists to have served in the United States Congress. The others are Senator Mazie Hirono and former Representative Colleen Hanabusa,both of Hawaii.
Jeffrey Eugene Mullis is an American politician who is a former member of the Georgia State Senate. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the 53rd district from 2001 to 2023 after an unsuccessful run for state senator in 1998.
Vincent D. Fort is an American politician who served as a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district from 1996 to 2017. He represented part of Fulton County for the 39th district. His district includes part of Atlanta and East Point. Fort was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2017 Atlanta mayoral election.
Howard Mosby is an American politician from Georgia. Mosby is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 90.
The National Black Caucus of State Legislators(NBCSL) is an American political organization composed of African Americans elected to state legislatures in the United States and its territories.
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.
John Albers is a Georgia State Senator serving the 56th District,which encompasses portions of Fulton,Cobb and Cherokee Counties.
Brandon Lamont Beach is an American politician serving as a member of the Georgia State Senate. Beach was first elected in the 2012 general election and serves Georgia's 21st district,which includes portions of Cherokee and Fulton counties.
Cecil Terrell "Butch" Miller is an American politician. A Republican,he was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2010 to 2023,elected from the 49th district. Miller unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in the 2022 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election.
Tonya Peterson Anderson is an American pastor and politician who serves in the Georgia State Senate. She previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives,from 2013 to 2015. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
William Burton Jones is an American politician and businessman who currently serves as the 13th lieutenant governor of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a member of the Georgia State Senate from January 2013 to January 2023,representing the 25th District.
The 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3,2020,and on January 5,2021,to elect the Class II member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue in the runoff election. The general election was held concurrently with the 2020 presidential election,as well as with other elections to the Senate,elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Dee Dawkins-Haigler is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat,she was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives representing the state's 91st district from 2008 until 2017. She has also run twice as a candidate for secretary of state of Georgia. She is a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Bee Nguyen is an American nonprofit executive and politician who served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 89th District from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she was elected during a special election in December 2017 to fill the seat vacated following Stacey Abrams's resignation in August 2017 to focus on her run for governor. Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-American elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.
Elizabeth Bachman Moore is an American attorney and former member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 95th District,serving from 2019 to 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. At the time Moore represented the 95th District it included the cities of Peachtree Corners,Berkeley Lake,Duluth,Norcross,and Johns Creek. The district included citizens of both Gwinnett and Fulton counties. As of 2022,District 95 was changed to a completely different area south of Snellville and north of Stonecrest and Conyers.
Wiley Randall Robertson is an American politician from Cataula,Georgia. He is a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate representing District 29,elected in 2018. Robertson is a retired law enforcement officer and attended Command College at Columbus State University and the FBI National Academy.
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 lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. It coincided with various other statewide elections,including for U.S. Senate,U.S. House,and Governor of Georgia. Georgia is one of 21 states that elects its lieutenant governor separately from its governor.
