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Famous Georgians
Famous Georgia People for Georgia Studies
| Name | Period | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Tomochichi | Colonial | Indian chief that gave land to the colonists of Savannah. |
| Mary Musgrove | Colonial | A trader who was hired to be a translator for the colonists. |
| Elijah Clarke | American Revolution | Continental American Officer who commanded at the Battle of Kettle Creek. |
| Rebecca Latimer Felton | American Revolution | An American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. |
| Nancy Hart | American Revolution | Heroine of the American Revolutionary War noted for her whose exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry. |
| Lyman Hall | American Revolution | Was a physician, clergyman, and statesman, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia. Hall County is named after him. |
| George Walton | American Revolution | Signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as the second Chief Executive of that state. |
| Abraham Baldwin | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | One of the Founding Fathers of Georgia, and founder of the University of Georgia. |
| William Few | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | Was a Politician that represented Georgia in the Constitutional Convention. He fought in the Revolutionary War. |
| Alexander McGivillary | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | Principal Chief of the Upper Creeks. He established an alliance with the British and resisted European and American expansion into his territories. |
| William McIntosh | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | Leader of the Lower Creeks, that started using European Tools. He allied with the United States against the Upper Creeks. |
| Sequoyah | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | Also known as George Guess, he invented the Cherokee Syllabary, so The Indians could write and read their spoken language. |
| John Ross | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | Became the leader of The Cherokee Nation. He was one-eighth Cherokee. He was also a successful tobacco farmer. |
| John Marshall | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | Longest serving Chief Justice who really built up the Judicial Branch of Government. He made a number of good rulings and laws. |
| Alexander Stephens | Building a Country and Westward Expansion | He was an American politician and vice president of the Confederacy. He was also the 50th governor of Georgia. |
| Henry McNeal Turner | New South | African American politician who was an active legislator and became an outspoken advocate for the back-to-Africa emigration. |
| Bourbon Triumvirate | New South | Made of Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt and John B. Gordon, these three ruled the Georgia legislature uninterrupted for a decade. |
| Henry Grady | New South | "Spokesperson of the New South", he was the managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution. |
| Thomas E. Watson | New South | Liberal, racist and anti-Catholic, this man represented the Populist Party. |
| Rebecca Latimer Felton | New South | She was the most prominent woman in the Progressive Era. She was also the first female senator in the US. |
| John Hope | New South | Most important African American educator and race leader of the 20th century |
| Lugenia Burns Hope | New South | A social activist, she helped improve black communities throughout the South. |
| Alonzo Herndon | New South | African American barber and entrepreneur. He helped found the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, which was largely successful. |
| Herman Talmadge | Desegregation and Civil Rights | A senator for Georgia in the mid to late 20th Century. He was one of the governors in the Three Governors Controversy. |
| Benjamin Mays | Desegregation and Civil Rights | A minister,scholar and social activist, he helped considerably in MLK's Civil Rights Movement. He was also very outspoken. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Desegregation and Civil Rights | A pastor, activist, and humanitarian, this man is best known for leading the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He used nonviolent practices. |
| Hamilton Holmes | Desegregation and Civil Rights | An orthopedic physician, he was one of the first two African Americans admitted into the University of Georgia. |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault | Desegregation and Civil Rights | A journalist and correspondent to NPR, she was one of the first two African Americans admitted into UGA. |
| Maynard Jackson | Desegregation and Civil Rights | An African American politician, he was the 54th and 56th mayor of Atlanta. He was the first African American mayor of a large Southern city. |
| Lester Maddox | Desegregation and Civil Rights | 75th Governor of Georgia, he was a segregationist. He owned a "Whites Only" restaurant and chose to have it close rather than desegregate it when it became a law. |
| Andrew Young | Desegregation and Civil Rights | A diplomat, activist, and pastor, he was the 55th mayor of Atlanta and also an ambassador to the United Nations. He was also a good friend of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Jimmy Carter | Desegregation and Civil Rights | The 39th President of the United States, he was also a peanut farmer and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after leaving office. |
| James Oglethorpe | Colonial | The most important trustee an founder of Savannah, which would be Georgia. |
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