Eugene Talmadge
Search results
Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 – March 21, 2002) was an American politician who served as governor of Georgia in 1947 and from 1948 to 1955 and as a U.S. senator from Georgia from 1957 to 1981.
- www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
- › …
- › Mid- to Late 20th Century Figures
Aug 12, 2002 · Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980.
Mar 22, 2002 · Former Senator Herman E. Talmadge, an old-fashioned Southern populist who built schools as governor of Georgia and then called for stopping desegregation by closing them, died today at his...
Mar 22, 2002 · In the U.S. Senate, Herman Talmadge became a powerhouse in the Southern tradition: Stay there, work hard, gain power, and transfer Yankee wealth south.
Mar 22, 2002 · WASHINGTON — Herman Talmadge, 88, a Democratic Georgia governor and senator who was among the last political lions of the Deep South to reap national attention for his defiantly segregationist...
Herman Talmadge. After his inauguration in 1948, Talmadge enacted Georgia's first sales tax, which helped fund a vast improvement in the state's public education system. Talmadge also helped attract new industry to the state and was an early advocate for the burgeoning timber industry.
May 1, 2011 · The Senate “denounced” Talmadge in 1979; Georgia voters dumped him a year later.
Mar 22, 2002 · Herman O. Eugene Talmadge, a former governor and U.S. senator from Georgia who once predicted that “blood will run in the streets of Atlanta” if the schools were desegregated, died Thursday at...
Jan 16, 1986 · Herman Eugene Talmadge (1913-2002), son of former governor Eugene Talmadge, was born on August 9, 1913 in the small Telfair County town of McRae, Georgia. He earned his law degree from the University of Georgia in 1936, and practiced law for several years before joining the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he saw extensive combat in the ...
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002. Biography: "Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980.
