Ronald Bryan Ginn

Bo Ginn (1981)

Ronald Bryan "Bo" Ginn (born May 31, 1934 in Morgan , Calhoun County , Georgia , †  January 6, 2005 in Augusta , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1973 and 1983 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ronald Ginn attended the public schools of his home country and then between 1951 and 1953 the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton . He then graduated from Georgia Southern College in Statesboro until 1956 . In the following years he worked as a teacher, businessman and rancher. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He was on the staff of US Senator Herman Talmadge and then became an employee of Congressman George Elliott Hagan .

In the 1972 congressional election , Ginn was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Hagan on January 3, 1973. After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1983 . In 1974, the work of Congress was overshadowed by the Watergate affair . During his time in the US House of Representatives, Ginn successfully campaigned against the closure of some military bases in Georgia.

In 1982 he decided not to run for Congress again. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections ; in the primary runoff he was defeated by Joe Frank Harris . In the following years he was chairman of the board of a lobby company. The company went bankrupt in 1996 and Ginn was sentenced to a short prison term for fraud.

Ronald Ginn was married to his wife Gloria, who died in 1998, with whom he had three children. He died on January 6, 2005 of lung cancer.

Web links

• Ronald Bryan Ginn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ronald Bryan Ginn in the database of Find a Grave (English)