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==List of Secretaries of State of Georgia== |
==List of Secretaries of State of Georgia== |
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Revision as of 18:09, 17 November 2020
| Georgia Secretary of State | |
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| Term length | 4 years |
| First holder | John Milton |
The Secretary of State of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records.
The office has had a four-year term since 1946.[1] Before 1880, the secretary of state was elected by the Georgia Assembly, not in a popular election.[1]
Secretary Brad Raffensperger came under fire from fellow Republicans during the 2020 United States presidential election
Georgia’s secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude legal ballots
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| John Milton
|
|1777
| 1799
|-
|2
| Horatio Marbury
|
|1799
| 1811
|-
|3
| Abner Hammond
|
| 1811
| 1823
|-
|4
| Everard Hamilton
|
| 1823
| 1833
|-
|5
| William A. Tennille
|
| 1833
| 1843
|-
|6
| Nathan Crawford Barnett
|
| 1843
| 1849
|-
|7
| George Washington Harrison
|
| 1849
|1851
|-
|8
| Nathan Crawford Barnett
|
|1851
| 1853
|-
|9
| Elihu P. Watkins
|
|1853
| 1861
|-
|10
| Nathan Crawford Barnett
|
|1861
| 1868
|-style="background-color:#FFB6B6" [2]
|11
| David G. Cotting
|Republican
|1868
| 1873
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|12
| Nathan Crawford Barnett
|Democrat [3]
|1873
|1890 a
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|13
|Philip Cook, Sr.
|Democrat
|1890
|1894 a
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|14
| Allen D. Candler
|Democrat
|1894
| 1898
|-
|15
| William C. Clifton
|
|1898
|1898
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|16
| Philip Cook, Jr.
|Democrat
|1898
|1918 a
|-
|17
| Henry Bascomb Strange
|
|1918
|1919
|-
|18
| Samuel Guyton McLendon
|
|1919
|1928 a
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|19
| George Henry Carswell
|Democrat
|1928
|1931
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|20
| John Bryan Wilson
|Democrat
|1931
|1946 a
|- style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|21
| Benjamin W. Fortson, Jr.
| Democrat
|1946
|1979 a
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|22
| David Bryan Poythress
|Democrat
|1979
|1983
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|23
| Joseph Maxwell “Max” Cleland
|Democrat
|1983
|1996
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|24
| Lewis A. Massey
|Democrat
|1996
| 1999
|-style="background-color:#B0CEFF"
|25
| Lera Catharine “Cathy” Cox
|Democrat
| 1999
| 2007
|-style="background-color:#FFB6B6"
|26
| Karen Handel
|Republican
|2007
|2010
|-style="background-color:#FFB6B6"
|27
| Brian Kemp
|Republican
|2010
|2018
|-style="background-color:#FFB6B6"
|28
| Robyn Crittenden
|Republican
|2018
|2019
|-style="background-color:#FFB6B6"
|29
| Brad Raffensperger
|Republican
|2019
|Incumbent
|}
(a) Died in Office
See also
References
- ^ a b "Georgia's Secretaries of State | Georgia Archives". www.georgiaarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ Political Graveyard
- ^ Colonel Nathan C. Barnett Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine