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Georgia's and 94th
McDonald won the primary in a surprise upset and was elected in November 1974 to the 94th United States Congress, serving for Georgia's 7th congressional district, which included most of Atlanta's northwestern suburbs ( including Marietta ), where opposition to school busing was especially high.

Georgia's and county
Worth County was created from Dooly and Irwin counties on December 20, 1853, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, becoming Georgia's 106th county.
Wilkes County, named for British politician and supporter of American independence, John Wilkes, is considered Georgia's first county, as it was the first of eight original counties created in the first state constitution on February 5, 1777.
Ware County, Georgia's 60th county, was created on December 15, 1824, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly from land that was originally part of Appling County.
The county itself was founded on December 19, 1795, and is named for Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe.
As of the 2010 census, the county's population swelled to 203, 922, up 70. 9 % from the previous census and becoming Georgia's 8th most populous county and the 10th fastest growing county in the nation.
It became Georgia's ninth county, incorporating on February 25, 1784, and was named in honor of patriot Benjamin Franklin.
The county sits firmly within Georgia's coastal plain region and has predominantly sedimentary rock and red and yellow clays.
The Big Pig Jig, Georgia's official State Barbecue Cooking Championship, is held annually in Fall in Dooly county and attracts a national audience.
Crawford County, in west central Georgia, is Georgia's fifty-seventh county.
The county is in Georgia's 11th House District.
It was Georgia's 21st county.
Georgia's 43rd county was named for Major Joseph Habersham, who fought in the Revolutionary War, was Mayor of Savannah, served in Congress and was President George Washington's Postmaster General.
" The original county of 1831 now includes 24 counties, and Cherokee County remains one of Georgia's largest counties with an area of.
Georgia's 100th county was named for General Andrew Pickens, a Revolutionary War soldier.
Georgia's Cherokee Land Lottery of 1832 also added to the county.
He ran for a state Senate seat in 1988 but lost, and in 1991 began to be active in Fulton County, Georgia's most populous county, as an anti-tax activist, complaining about property taxes ; in 1992 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.

Georgia's and was
Implementation of Georgia's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury.
Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
Georgia's Dick Russell objected politely, and the battle was joined.
This represents the best result among the CIS countries and a dramatic improvement on Georgia's score in 2004, when the country was ranked 133rd with 2. 0 points.
In January 2006 a new party, Georgia's Way, was created.
Thus, there was a revolt among the mountaineers of Pkhovi and Dido on Georgia's northeastern frontier in 1212, which was put down by Ivane Mkhargrdzeli after three months of heavy fighting.
This originally was the Georgia and North Carolina border all the way back to the Mississippi River, until Tennessee was divided from North Carolina, and the Yazoo companies induced the legislature of Georgia to pass an act, approved by the governor in 1795, to sell the greater part of Georgia's territory presently comprising Alabama and Mississippi.
She was the principal interpreter for Georgia's founder and first Governor Gen. James Oglethorpe, using her connections to foster peace between the Creek Indians and the new colony.
Many scholars doubt the assertion that it was as far north as the Chesapeake ; most place it in present-day Georgia's Sapelo Island.
The nickname " Thrashers ", after Georgia's state bird, the brown thrasher, was selected from a fan poll.
Weise reported that Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, found refrigeration was critical to safe salsa ; and also that using fresh garlic and fresh lime juice, instead of their more processed equivalents, inhibited the growth of bacteria.
John E. Drewry ( 1902 1983 ) was the first dean of the University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
County residents, however, were largely pro-Union in the years leading up to the war, as was true of much of Georgia's mountainous north, and the county's delegates to the state convention of 1861 voted against secession.
The Civil War ( 1861 65 ) brought one of Georgia's most notable and notorious landmarks to the area, when a small village named Andersonville, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner of war camp.
Due to irregularities in an early survey mission, the Georgia-North Carolina border at Rabun County's northeast corner was erroneously set several hundred yards north of the 35th parallel, giving this location at Ellicott's Rock the distinction of being the State of Georgia's northernmost point.
One of the key figures in the establishment and growth of the Chattahoochee National Forest was " Ranger Nick " Nicholson, Georgia's first forest ranger.

Georgia's and named
Of Georgia's 159 counties, Hart County is the only one named after a woman, Nancy Hart.
Shekema Silveri, a teacher at Mount Zion High in Clayton County Public Schools, was named Georgia's 2011 National Milken Educator of the Year.
All three were recently named among " Georgia's Hidden Treasures " in a segment on WSB-TV.
The park is named after one of Georgia's great legislators.
It was named for Georgia's founder, James Oglethorpe.
Colquitt was named Georgia's First Mural City by the state legislature, and will host the Global Mural Conference in 2010.
The Coleman Institute Catalog said that it was named for John Reynolds, one of Georgia's famous governors, while another source said it was named for the superintendent of the railroad at the time.
Georgia's Toombs County is named for Robert Toombs.
Richmond County, Georgia, one of Georgia's original counties, was named for him.
Another noteworthy point is that man-made Lake Russell, the lake north of Clarke Hill along the Savannah River, was named after Richard B. Russell, Jr., Georgia's noted U. S. Senator and former governor, in the same 1987 bill.
Georgia's flag was named the worst, but has since been changed, and Nebraska's flag was named second worst.
In high school at Washington County High School in Sandersville, Georgia he earned All-American honors from Parade and USA Today and was named Georgia's " Mr. Football " by state coaches as a senior.
It is named after its sheer cliffs of dark-colored biotite gneiss and encompasses some of the most outstanding countryside in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
The first family named on the treaty's list was that of Bagrationi, to which belonged Georgia's king and agnates, but henceforth they and all of the other families were accorded the title of Knyaz and the rank of ordinary nobleman in Russia.
He was named after Thomas E. Watson, the leader of the Populist Party in Georgia who was a champion of Georgia's dispossessed, both black and white.
The Vidalia onion was named Georgia's official state vegetable in 1990.

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