Georgia Secretary of State

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 incumbent Secretary of State is Robyn Crittenden, who was appointed to the office on November 8, 2018 by Governor Nathan Deal following the resignation of Brian Kemp. Crittenden is the first African American woman to hold a statewide constitutional office in Georgia. She will serve until January 2019, when the winner of the 2018 Secretary of State election is expected to take office.

List of Secretaries of State of Georgia

#	Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
1^[1]	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
11	David G. Cotting	Republican	1868	1873
12	Nathan Crawford Barnett	Democrat ^[3]	1873	1890 ^a
13	Philip Cook, Sr.	Democrat	1890	1894 ^a
14	Allen D. Candler	Democrat	1894	1898
15	William C. Clifton		1898	1898
16	Philip Cook, Jr.	Democrat	1898	1918 ^a
17	Henry Bascomb Strange		1918	1919
18	Samuel Guyton McLendon		1919	1928 ^a
19	George Henry Carswell	Democrat	1928	1931
20	John Bryan Wilson	Democrat	1931	1946 ^a
21	Benjamin W. Fortson, Jr.	Democrat	1946	1979 ^a
22	David Bryan Poythress	Democrat	1979	1983
23	Joseph Maxwell “Max” Cleland	Democrat	1983	1996
24	Lewis A. Massey	Democrat	1996	1999
25	Lera Catharine “Cathy” Cox	Democrat	1999	2007
26	Karen Handel	Republican	2007	2010
27	Brian Kemp	Republican	2010	2018
28	Robyn Crittenden	Republican	2018	Incumbent
29	Brad Raffensperger	Republican	Taking office January 14, 2019

(a) Died in Office