...who knows his way around both Georgia and the Pentagon. Will Ball worked as chief of staff to former Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadge before being appointed as Navy secretary in 1988 by President Reagan."We're in a tremendous period of uncertainty...
...efforts of the master plan.The term "master plan" has been a buzzword around here for decades. Georgia Gov. Herman Talmadge signed a bill into law in 1947 establishing a zoning commission for Augusta that would be tasked with developing "a...
...D., was the Medical College of Georgia's first president. He, along with Georgia Govs. Eugene Talmadge and Herman Talmadge ? and with great support from our leaders in Augusta ? fought the Board of Regents successfully from relocating the...
...She had another shortcoming, Mr. Beckham said. "She was not loyal whatsoever to her friends," he said. "Old Herman Talmadge (former Georgia governor and U.S. senator) had it right one time. He said in politics if you lose a vote, you've...
...Georgia politicians is wanted on charges of pistol-whipping a pizza deliveryman. Herman Talmadge III - the grandson of the late U.S. Sen. Herman Talmadge and great-grandson of four-time Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge - has been charged...
...the ultimate local boy made good. Or, his aides warned, it could be an opportunity for ''race-baiting Gov. Herman Talmadge,'' as the black newspapers referred to him, to snub arguably the most powerful black man in the world.Tubman...
...When Eugene Talmadge died, the three-way race threw the decision into the House of Representatives which elected Herman Talmadge. The Supreme Court eventually ruled that Lt. Gov.-elect Melvin Thompson was the rightful governor, but only...
...few names appearing on most lists are former Gov. Zell Miller, who ran for the seat in 1980 against then-Sen. Herman Talmadge, and U.S. Rep. Johnny Isakson, R-Marietta, who ran for the seat in 1992. Both have name recognition statewide...
...filed this morning over the awarding of the contract to Dawson Construction Co. of Gadsden, Ala. Georgia Sens. Herman Talmadge and David Gambrell and 10th District Rep. Robert G. Stephens announced by way of telegrams that Dawson had been...
...that dominated Georgia for a half-century, and he served from 1948 to 1954 as state adjutant general under Gov. Herman Talmadge. His wife, Betty, also was well connected politically as niece of Sen. Richard B. Russell, one of the South's...
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