Nathan Deal

Nathan Deal

John Nathan Deal (* 25. August 1942 in Millen , Jenkins County , Georgia ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He was governor of the state of Georgia from January 10, 2011 to January 14, 2019 .

Life

Career

After attending public schools in Washington County , Deal graduated from Mercer University in Macon , where he earned his doctorate in law in 1964 . From 1966 to 1968 he served as a soldier in the US Army .

Deal started out as a lawyer in a small law firm, but was appointed to the Northeastern Judicial Circuit in 1970 , where he served until 1971. From 1971 to 1972 he was a judge at the Hall County Juvenile Court before running his own law firm from 1977 to 1979 as an independent attorney .

Political career

In 1981 Deal was elected to the Georgia Senate as a member of the Democratic Party , where he held a seat for twelve years until 1993. In 1992 he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives for the first time - with success. On January 3, 1993, he was sworn in as a Congressman, also as a Democrat. When the majority of the Georgia delegation belonged to the Republican Party after the 1994 congressional election (seven out of eleven MPs), Nathan Deal changed parties on April 10, 1995, becoming the eighth Republican Congressman in his state. When Deal sought his re-election in 1996, he was confirmed as a Republican with 66 percent of the vote in his district. Deal was then re-elected six more times, but three times no democratic opponent could be found and he was able to win 100 percent of the votes. During his tenure as a congressman, Deal sat on the energy and trade committee . On March 21, 2010, Deal resigned from his mandate as a congressman. The reason given was his intention to run for governor of Georgia.

In his party's primary for governor, Deal narrowly won by about 2,500 votes over Karen Handel , Secretary of State of Georgia. In the election in early November 2010, he ran against the Democrat Roy Barnes , who had served as governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. With 53 percent of the vote, Deal was able to clearly distance Barnes, who only had 43 percent. On January 10, 2011, he then replaced his Republican party colleague Sonny Perdue as governor, who was no longer allowed to run after two terms. In the gubernatorial election on November 4, 2014, Deal won again and was thus confirmed for another four years. He was able to collect 52.8 percent of the vote, for his Democratic challenger Jason Carter , a state senator and grandson of the former US President Jimmy Carter , 44 percent of the electorate voted. With that, Deal surprisingly won through after the opinion polls predicted a close race.

Political positions

Nathan Deal is considered a proponent of the death penalty. During Governor Nathan Deal's tenure, a relatively large number of death sentences were carried out (19 of 65 of all carried out death sentences in Georgia as of May 2016), including a woman in Kelly Gissendaner . In 2015 and 2016, only Texas carried out more death sentences

Number of Nathan Deal executions per year:

year	2011	2013	2014	2015	2016
number	4th	1	2	5	7th

Private

Nathan Deal is married and has four children, a son and three daughters with his wife Sandra Dunagan.

Web links

Commons : Nathan Deal  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nathan Deal in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Nathan Deal in the nndb (English)
• Nathan Deal in the National Governors Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ontheissues.org/GA/Nathan_Deal.htm
2. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Police murderer executed in the US state of Georgia . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on October 20, 2016]).