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5 days ago · Dig Deeper. Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr on Wednesday was elected as the next president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and Doug Hamlin as the NRA executive vice president & CEO. The election comes after the NRA held its 153 rd NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits this weekend, which featured 72,000 members in attendance.
1 day ago · Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈlɪŋkən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
3 days ago · George Washington, American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States (1789–97). He is known as ‘the Father of His Country.’ Learn more about Washington’s life and career.
May 6, 2024 · Georgia’s Little New Deal: Governor Eurith D. Rivers. By Ray Hill. One of the phenomena of the coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was the number of states that elected governors who tried to emulate the president inasmuch as they put into place what were frequently known as “Little New Deal” administrations in their own states.
May 20, 2024 · v. t. e. The 1968 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1968. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace received the most votes, and won all twelve of the state's electoral college votes. [2] Wallace, who ran a campaign based upon support for segregation, won all but seventeen of the state's 159 counties.
20 hours ago · TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A Georgian parliament committee on Monday rejected the president’s veto of the “foreign agents” legislation that has sparked massive protests for weeks. The move by ...
1 day ago · Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin [a] ( Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla (j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ⓘ; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to ...
