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Important People in Georgia's History
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Robert E. Lee
Fought for Georgia during the civil war
1829 -
Alexander Stephens
Was born in GA and was the vice president of the confederacy
February 1861 -
General William Sherman
Led a campaign that destroyed Atlanta during the civil war
November 15th - December 21st, 1864 -
Clara Barton
Started the missing/dead soldiers program in Andersonville
August 1865 -
Ulysses S. Grant
Beat General Bragg at the battle of Chattanooga and opened up Georgia for Union invasion
August 21st 1863 -
Rebecca Felton
She greatly contributeed to the broadening of womens' rights by being the first woman in the US senate on September 26, 1922. -
Joel Chandler Harris
He published the first of 186 Uncle Remus books in Georgia in 1880. It sold 10,000 copies within 4 months. -
Carrie Nation
Believed that alcohol and tobacco were behind the world's evils so she attacked saloons and encouraged prohabition in the 1900's. -
Henry Grady
Was the managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper
1880's -
Asa Candler
Opened Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta in 1906 -
Booker T. Washington
He gave the Atlanta Compromise speech in Atltanta, GA
September 15th, 1895 -
Tom Watson
Nominated by the Populist party as a vice presidential canidate in 1896 -
Alonzo Herndon
He was a freed slave that founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company in 1905. -
Juliette Gordon Low
She was the founder of the girl scouts of USA and in 1912 she formed troups in Savannah. -
Abraham Lincoln
Ordered a blockade on the confederacy and ruined the south's economy
April 1861 -
Martha Berry
She was the founder of the Berry Schools for -
Martha Berry
Founded of the Berry Schools of academically able but economically poor children of the rural south in the early 1900s. -
W.E.B Dubois
He was a founding member of the NAACP and contributed to the civil rights movement in the early 20th century. -
Franklin Roosevelt
Established Georgia Warm Spring Foundation in 1927 -
Leo Frank
Convicted of murder of Mary Phagan in 1913 -
Eugene Talmadge
Was governor for 3 consecutive terms
1926 -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Began serving as a U.S delegate to the U.N in 1946 -
General William Hood
Gratuated from the Fort Benning Training Camp
1924 -
William Hartsfield
First Elected as Atlanta's mator in 1937 -
Margaret Mitchell
Published Gone With the Wind in 1936; sold 1 mil+ copies within 1st 6 months -
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Elected as Atlanta's Mayor in 1962 -
Lester Maddox
Governor in 1966 and appointed more African Americans than all previous Georgia governors combined. -
Jimmy Carter
He was the only Georgian elected president of the US and held office for one term. (1977-1981) -
Flannery O'Connor
Thought of as one of America's greatest authors and she was born in Georgia and died in Georgia. -
Andrew Young
Won Georgia's fifth district seat in the US House of Representatives in 1972. He was the first African American since reconstruction to be elected to congress in Georgia. In 1981 he became the Atlanta city mayor. -
Sam Nunn
Began serving as a Democratic member of the Georgia General Assembly in 1968 -
John Lewis
Elected to represent the Fifth Congressional District of GA in the House of Representatives in 1987 -
Newt Gingrich
Elected to serve as a Congressman from Georiga's Sixth District in 1979
