Georgia's former defense minister from 2006 to 2008, Davit Kezerashvili, had previously lived in Israel.

* W. S. Stuckey, Jr. — a former Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives that represented Georgia's 8th congressional district ( 1967 – 1977 ) and former President of Stuckey's ( 1958 – 1966 ) currently Chairman of the Board.

The school also has competitive MIAA Division I athletics, having won several state titles in different sports and given rise to former major league pitcher Brian Rose and former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player Jess Gaspar along with UCONN Football star Jordan Todman and Georgia's Arthur Lynch.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, ethnic tensions between Ossetians and Georgians in Georgia's former Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia ( abolished in 1990 ) and between Ossetians and the Ingush in North Ossetia evolved into violent clashes that left several hundreds dead and wounded and created a large tide of refugees on both sides of the border.

Abkhaz is also spoken by members of the large Abkhaz Muhajir diaspora, which is mainly located in Turkey with smaller groups living in Syria, Iraq and Jordan ; Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara ; throughout the former USSR ( e. g. Armenia and the Ukraine ) and through more recent remigration in Western countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, ethnic tensions between Ossetians and Georgians in Georgia's former Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia ( abolished in 1990 ) and between Ossetians and the Ingush in North Ossetia evolved into violent clashes that left several hundreds dead and wounded and created a large tide of refugees on both sides of the border.

Others, such as former Georgia athletic director Damon Evans, have dismissed the idea that Georgia's recent losing record is due to the game being played in Jacksonville.

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.

Stevenson left the group after the release of The Power of Expression and was briefly replaced by William DuVall, former guitarist of Atlanta, Georgia's Neon Christ ; from then on, Neider was the sole guitarist from that point on.

In presidential races, Georgia has not given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate only four times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket ; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ; and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won a plurality of votes in 1992 against incumbent Republican George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

Nodar Vladimirovich Khashba ( born 1951 in Tkvarcheli ) is a former prime minister of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia and a former mayor of Sukhumi.

* Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgia's former president.

From Lake Oconee, the river travels to Lake Sinclair, another manmade lake in Milledgeville, the town founded on Georgia's fall line and former state capital.

Among those criticizing the proposal were former President Jimmy Carter – a Georgia resident, a Democrat and a well-known Baptist – saying he was ".. embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students ... there can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy.

On October 18, 1998, there was an attempted revolt led by Colonel Akaki Eliava, former Zviadist officer near Kutaisi, Georgia's second largest city.

A former NGO activist, he became directly involved in Georgia's politics in 1999 and emerged as one of the government's most influential members after the 2003 Rose Revolution, especially as Georgia's Minister of Internal Affairs ( December 28, 2004 – July 4, 2012 ).

He became embroiled in a national controversy in 1962 after he contributed to an article for The Saturday Evening Post which alleged that the University of Georgia's former head football coach and then-current athletic director Wally Butts and coach Bear Bryant of the University of Alabama conspired to fix the outcome of a college football game.

Commonly-cited examples of dog-whistle politics include civil rights-era use of the phrase " forced busing ," used to enable a person to imply opposition to racial integration without them needing to say so explicitly ; the state of Georgia's adoption, in 1956, of a flag visually similar to the Confederate battle flag, itself understood by many to be a dog-whistle for racism ; the phrase " Southern strategy ," used by the Republican Party in the 1960s to describe plans to gain influence in the South by appealing to people's racism ; Ronald Reagan, on the campaign trail in 1980, saying in Mississippi " I believe in states ' rights " ( a sentence the New Statesman later described as " perhaps the archetypal dog-whistle statement "), described as implying Reagan believed that states should be allowed, if they want, to retain racial segregation ; Reagan's use of the term " welfare queens ," said to be designed to rouse racial resentment among white working-class voters against minorities ; a 2008 TV ad for Republican presidential candidate John McCain called " The One ," which observers said dog-whistled to evangelical Christians who believed Obama might be the Antichrist ; a Tea Party spokeswoman saying President Obama " doesn't love America like we do ," thought to be an allusion to Obama's race and to the birth certificate controversy, and Republicans frequently emphasizing Obama's middle name for the same reason ; an aide to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney saying Romney would be a better President than Obama because Romney understood the " shared Anglo-Saxon heritage " of the United States and the United Kingdom ; former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and others, calling Obama " the food stamps president " said to be a way of exploiting stereotypes among racially resentful white voters who see food stamps as unearned giveaways to minorities.

In 1832, while on a speaking tour of the North to raise funds for the Phoenix, Boudinot learned that, in Worcester v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court had sustained the Cherokee rights to political and territorial sovereignty within Georgia's borders.

Brooke stated " I do not intend to be a national leader of the Negro people ", and " condemned both Stokely Carmichael and Georgia's Lester Maddox " as extremists ; nonetheless, his historic election gave Brooke " a 50-state constituency, a power base that no other Senator can claim.

After losing a third term following redistricting, he was appointed judge of the Baldwin County court, but following the sudden death of Senator Augustus Bacon, Representative Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia's 10th Congressional District was nominated to fill Bacon's Senate seat and Vinson announced his candidacy for Hardwick's seat in Congress.

Upon Georgia's readmission to the Union in 1866, he was chosen as a U. S. Senator, but was disallowed from serving due to his involvement with the rebellion.

Governor Sonny Perdue, members of Georgia's Congressional delegation and state legislature, as well as local dignitaries including Chairman Sam Olens and Commissioner Bob Ott, were on hand for the event.

In the interim between now and next year, we trust the House and Senate will put their minds to studying Georgia's very real economic, fiscal and social problems and come up with answers without all the political heroics.

With flourishing commercial centers now under Georgia's control, industry and commerce brought new wealth to the country and the court.

Georgia's first state penitentiary was also established within the historic city limits of Milledgeville in 1817, on land now part of the campus of Georgia College and State University.

Pooler is now one of Georgia's fastest-growing cities.

" The original county of 1831 now includes 24 counties, and Cherokee County remains one of Georgia's largest counties with an area of.

In 1960, the University of Georgia began WGTV, Georgia's second public television station ( after WETV, now WPBA ).

The Tbilisi University ( present-day I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, TSU, which now bears his name ), of which Javakhishvili became a professor and the head of the Department of the History of Georgia, rapidly assumed a dominant position in Georgia's educational life.

Most of these lands are now part of Georgia's regions of Shida Kartli ( of which Gori is the capital ) and Kvemo Kartli ( with its capital at Rustavi ), but also of Samtskhe-Javakheti ( of which Akhaltsikhe its capital ), and Mtskheta-Mtianeti ( Mtskheta is the capital ).

The theaters mostly had White owners ( Athens, Georgia's, 1909 " Morton Theater " -- run by " Pinky " Monroe Morton, and now beautifully restored, being a notable exception ) and collaborated in booking jazz, blues, comedians, and other performers

Taylor also successfully advocated for Georgia's first DNA database, which has now solved more than 300 previously unsolved crimes.

Administratively speaking, Tusheti is now part of the raioni of Akhmeta, itself part of Georgia's eastern region of Kakheti.

In the GLO building, he began developing characters and plots for such stories as " Georgia's Ruling " ( 1900 ), and " Buried Treasure " ( 1908 ).

Georgia's 94th county was named for William Washington Gordon ( 1796 – 1842 ), the first Georgian to graduate from West Point and first president of the Central of Georgia Railroad ( See a monument to William Gordon in Savannah, Georgia ).

1897 ) one of Georgia's oldest, continuously operating peach packing house ( built in 1936 ), Hays General Store ( Est.

In 1868, after the Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), Georgia's capital was moved from Milledgeville to its present location in Atlanta.

Georgia's founder and colonial governor, James Oglethorpe, renamed the island " Amelia Island " in honor of Princess Amelia ( 1710 – 1786 ), King George II's daughter, although the island was still a Spanish possession.

* Shettle, M. L. ( 2005 ), Georgia's Army Airfields of World War II.

* Shettle, M. L. ( 2005 ), Georgia's Army Airfields of World War II.

The proposed plan would include some of Georgia's largest cities in a new Milton County, such as Roswell ( 7th ), Sandy Springs ( 8th ), Johns Creek ( 12th ), Alpharetta ( 13th ), Milton ( 54th ), as well as Mountain Park.

Opponents of Georgia's transportation policies have alleged a race-based two-tiered system, where billions are spent by the state on highway expansion to aid the commutes of mostly Caucasian residents of the suburbs and rural areas ( like GRIP ), while service cuts at MARTA have hurt mostly African Americans.

Georgia's state sales tax is currently 4 % ( groceries and prescription drugs exempted ), with the counties allowed to add up to 2 % more for SPLOST.

* Shettle, M. L. ( 2005 ), Georgia's Army Airfields of World War II.

He was a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Georgian Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences ( 1973 – 1977, 1985 – 1990 ), Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State University ( 1973 – 1975, 1985 – 1990 ) and member of the Union of Georgia's Writers ( 1966 – 1977, 1985 – 1991 ), PhD in the field of Philology ( 1973 ) and Doctor of Sciences ( Full Doctor, 1991 ).

* John Barrow ( U. S. politician ) ( born 1955 ), Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district

A conservative clerk advised him to uphold the ban, and Powell, who believed he had never met a gay person ( not realizing that one of his own clerks was a closeted homosexual ), voted to uphold Georgia's law, though Powell in a concurring opinion expressed concern at the length of the prison terms prescribed by the law.

Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860 ( 1992 ), speeches

On September 16, 2005, Tchiaberashvili was approved by the Parliament of Georgia as Georgia's permanent representative to the Council of Europe ( CoE ), a position which made him involved in diplomatic battles following the August 2008 Russian – Georgian war.

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 principal airport is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ( ATL ), the world's busiest passenger airport.