John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins,the Freedom Rides,was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966,and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States,in 1965 Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where,in an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday,state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers.
Alisha Thomas Morgan or Alisha Thomas Searcy is an American politician. She was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2003 to 2015,representing the 39th district.
Karen Christine Handel is an American businesswoman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,Handel served as chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners from 2003 to 2006,as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2007 to 2010,and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019.
Mable Thomas is an American politician serving as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 56. She previously represented District 55,which includes areas immediately west and southwest of Downtown Atlanta and areas west and northwest of Midtown Atlanta.
Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician,lawyer,voting rights activist,and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017,serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,Abrams founded Fair Fight Action,an organization to address voter suppression,in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia,including in the 2020 presidential election,when Joe Biden narrowly won the state,and in Georgia's 2020–21 regularly scheduled and special U.S. Senate elections,which gave Democrats control of the Senate.
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.
Dar'shun Nicole Kendrick is an American attorney and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives,representing the 95th district;she previously represented the 94th and 93rd districts. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Stacey Godfrey Evans is an American politician and Georgia State Representative for District 57 starting in 2021. She received 56.8% of the primary vote,and was uncontested in the general election. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the Georgia State Representative for District 42 from 2011 to 2014. She was succeeded by Teri Anulewicz.
The 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,concurrently with other statewide and local elections to elect the next governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp won the election,defeating Democratic former State Representative Stacey Abrams.
Park Elizabeth Cannon is an American politician from the state of Georgia. She is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives,representing the 58th district,and a member of the Democratic Party.
Lucia Kay McBath is an American politician who has served in the United States House of Representatives from a district in the suburbs of Atlanta,Georgia since 2019. She represented Georgia's 6th congressional district from 2019 to 2023,and has represented the neighboring 7th district since 2023. McBath is a member of the Democratic Party.
Jason Chauncey Spencer is an American physician assistant and Republican politician.
Katherine Lauren Hill is an American former politician and social services administrator from Agua Dulce,California. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as the U.S. representative for California's 25th congressional district from January to November 2019. Hill is the former executive director of People Assisting the Homeless (PATH),a statewide non-profit organization working to end homelessness throughout California. She won her seat by defeating incumbent Republican Steve Knight in the 2018 midterm elections.
Renitta Shanbay Shannon is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. In 2016,Shannon defeated a four-term Democratic incumbent. In January 2017,she was sworn into the Georgia State House of Representatives to represent the 84th district.
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.
Erick Eugene Allen is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented the 40th district from 2019 to 2023.
Marjorie Taylor Greene,also known by her initials MTG,is an American politician,businesswoman,and conspiracy theorist who has been the U.S. representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since 2021. She is commonly described as right-wing or far-right. A member of the Republican Party,she was elected to Congress in 2020 following the retirement of Republican incumbent Tom Graves and was reelected in 2022.
El-Mahdi E. Holly is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party,Holly has served in the Georgia House of Representatives for the 111th and 116th district.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia were held on November 8,2022,to elect the 14 U.S. representatives from the state of Georgia,one from each of the state's congressional districts. The elections coincided with the Georgia gubernatorial election,as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives,elections to the U.S. Senate,and various state and local elections.
A special election filled the remainder of the term in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district in the 116th United States Congress. Incumbent representative John Lewis,who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019,died on July 17,2020,during his 17th term.
