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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Herman Talmadge (1913-2002)
		Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state, and he served in the Senate during a time of great political change in the nation as well.
		Herman Eugene Talmadge was born on August 9, 1913, in Telfair County.
		Although Talmadge won renomination in a runoff, he was sufficiently weakened to be vulnerable in the general election, where he was defeated by Republican Mack Mattingly.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-590 (1272 words)

	Herman Talmadge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 - March 21, 2002) was an American politician who served as Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955, and as a U.S. Senator from 1957 until 1981.
		Talmadge was born in Telfair County, Georgia, the only son of Eugene Talmadge, who served as Governor of Georgia during much of the 1930s and '40s.
		Herman defeated Governor Thompson in 1948 and he was elected to a full term in 1950.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_E._Talmadge (460 words)

	Eugene Talmadge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eugene Talmadge (September 23, 1884–December 21, 1946) was an American politician who served as governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943.
		Talmadge ran for Governor and won a majority of the county unit votes in the Primary; he successfully ran for re-election in 1934.
		Talmadge was unsuccessful in his challenge to Senator Walter George in 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eugene_Talmadge (422 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 – March 21, 2002) was an American politician who served as Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955, and as a U.S. Senator from 1957 until 1981.
		Talmadge was born in McRae, Georgia, the only son of Eugene Talmadge, who served as Governor of Georgia during much of the 1930s and '40s.
		Herman defeated Governor Thompson in 1948 and he was elected to a full term in 1950.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Herman_Talmadge (606 words)

	Talmadge - dKosopedia
		Eugene Talmadge was elected Agriculture Commissioner of Georgia in 1926 and served three terms before being elected Governor of Georgia in 1932 and re-elected in 1934.
		Herman Talmadge was the son of Eugene Talmadge and the manager of his father's 1946 campaign for Governor.
		The General Assembly elected Herman Talmadge in his father's place, but the Supreme Court ruled that Lieutenant Governor Melvin Thompson should become Governor until a special election could be held in 1948.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Talmadge (300 words)

	Herman Talmadge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Talmadge encouraged industry to move into Georgia and he was a staunch supporter of (A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups) segregation.
		Talmadge remained a foe of (Right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equ) civil rights legislation as a Senator.
		Talmadge was a member of the (additional info and facts about Demosthenian Literary Society) Demosthenian Literary Society while a student at the (additional info and facts about University of Georgia) University of Georgia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/herman_talmadge.htm (525 words)

	Betty Talmadge Dies; Outspoken Senate Ex-Wife
		Betty Shingler Talmadge, 81, a well-known Washington socialite and businesswoman who testified against her newly divorced husband, the late Democratic Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, during a Senate ethics inquiry in the late 1970s, died May 7 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.
		Talmadge testified that she took about a third of it, between $12,000 and $15,000, in January 1974 after a fight with her then-husband.
		Talmadge retained control of the family's 1836 mansion, Lovejoy Plantation, which she insisted was the inspiration for Twelve Oaks, Ashley Wilkes's place in "Gone With the Wind," despite evidence that it was at best only one of dozens of homes that influenced author Margaret Mitchell.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001409_pf.html (645 words)

	Talmadge, Herman E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As governor, Herman Talmadge concentrated on improving educational opportunities for children of all races by establishing youth centers, increasing construction of rural roads, and building additional hospitals and health care centers.
		Talmadge probably achieved his greatest national prominence through his role on the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, which investigated the Watergate scandal and ultimately led to the resignation of the president and vice president of the United States, as well as the conviction of three cabinet members on felony charges.
		Talmadge thought that the Watergate investigation was one of the most important events in the history of the United States and demonstrated that a republican form of government has a way of correcting the conduct of public officials and alerting others not to make the same mistake.
	www.libs.uga.edu /russell/collections/talmadge.html (3940 words)

	Georgia State University Library - Special Collections - Georgia Government Documentation Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Talmadge then speaks of his political strength in the state for 27 years, and the 50-year domination of Georgia politics by the Talmadge father and son team, wherein he claims that the Ku Klux Klan had no power after the 1920s.
		Talmadge admits that although he has changed his views on segregation, he nevertheless was sad when it ended, because it changed the traditions and mores of the South that had lasted over 200 years.
		Talmadge speaks of Johnny Cook, an anti-Communist, who began as an anti-Talmadge man, and who switched to being a Talmadge man, and surmises that the switch was made because Cook realized that Talmadge was good for the state.
	www.library.gsu.edu /spcoll/Collections/ggdp/talmadge2.htm (619 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ex-Georgia governor Herman Talmadge dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Herman Talmadge won the legislative vote but was kept from the governor's office by outgoing Gov.
		Herman Eugene Talmadge was born Aug. 9, 1913.
		Talmadge also became a lawyer, but left the Navy at the end of World War II determined not to be a politician.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/03/21/georgia.htm (926 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Opinions:Herman Talmadge 03/22/02
		Herman Eugene Talmadge, the legendary Georgia politician whose long, colorful and questionable political career defined Georgia politics for decades, has died, but the story of his life and times - the good, the bad and the scandalous - will forever be etched on the history of Georgia.
		Whether it was the storm of controversy that swirled around his political coup of the governorship, or his defiance of desegregation or the scandals involving cash gifts from supporters, Talmadge regularly got himself in and out of political trouble his entire career, chewing tobacco and smoking cigars all the way.
		Talmadge was arguably the most powerful politician the state has ever produced - brilliant, swaggering and hard-working.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/032202/opi_240-6144.shtml (330 words)

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		Talmadge, a Democrat, served six years as governor, first elected in 1948, and 24 years in the Senate starting in 1957.
		Talmadge was less successful when he battled the Senate Ethics Committee in 1979 over his use of campaign money and Senate expense money.
		Herman Eugene Talmadge was born Aug. 9, 1913, to Eugene Talmadge, then a farmer and mule trader, and former telegraph operator Mattie Thurmond Talmadge in southern Georgia.
	daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h28712245.html (831 words)

	Three Georgia Governors - at one time!
		Talmadge was quite ill, and his campaign camp feared he wouldn’t live to see his own inauguration- or possibly even the upcoming November election.
		Talmadge forces reasoned that a write-in candidate would have the sufficient amount of votes to qualify as second or third.
		Talmadge forces, however, won a close vote to delay certifying the vote and to move immediately to select a new governor.
	www.legis.state.ga.us /legis/2005_06/house/kids/teachers/3govs/3govs.htm (827 words)

	Georgia's Three Governors Controversy
		The General Assembly, which was overwhelmingly in support of the Talmadge forces, moved to disregard the new Constitution, and the solons decided that M.E. Thompson was not the governor since neither Thompson nor Talmadge had been sworn in when "Ole' Gene" met his demise.
		However, Ellis Arnall refused to relinquish the office of governor stating that Herman Talmadge was a "pretender" to the governorship.
		Talmadge left the governor's office and told the adjutant general, Marvin Griffin, to see to it that Ellis Arnall got back safely to his home in Newnan, about 40 miles south of Atlanta.
	facstaff.colstate.edu /buchanan_scott (1176 words)

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		Herman Talmadge was the son of Eugene Talmadge, who built the Talmadge machine.
		The elder Talmadge was agricultural commissioner and governor.
		Herman Talmadge came to power after his father died as governor-elect shortly after winning the election in 1946.
	times-herald.com /archives/opinion/2002/0322.html (1284 words)

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		Talmadge underwent open heart surgery in 1997 to replace a defective heart valve.
		His political career began and ended with landmarks, from the "three governors" dispute of 1947, in which Talmadge seized the governor's office, to 1980 when he was unseated amid Senate denunciation and alcohol problems by the first Republican to win a Georgia Senate race since Reconstruction.
		He was divorced from Betty Talmadge in 1977, and was treated for alcohol abuse at a naval facility in 1979.
	daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h28710975.html (973 words)

	henryherald.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Herman Talmadge III has spent all of his adult life trying to stay out of the political arena.
		Talmadge's political parentage includes a great-grandfather who served as a governor, a grandfather who served as a governor and senator, and his mother, McDonough City Council member Gail Notti.
		Talmadge said that family problems, the declining health of his father coupled with real estate losses kept him from even considering politics until recently.
	www.henryherald.com /articles/2004/06/23/news/news3.txt (426 words)

	@ugusta: The Augusta Chronicle Online: Celebrate 2000Talmadge dies before taking office 02/03/99
		Talmadge, a folksy orator in red suspenders dubbed the ``Wild Man from Sugar Creek,'' had been the dominant figure in Georgia politics since he shocked longtime Agriculture Commissioner J.J. Brown and courthouse gangs across Georgia in the 1926 Democratic primary.
		Talmadge won over a strong field with the help of rural poor voters aided by the repeal of the poll tax.
		Talmadge maintained was stacked with political enemies of his father, voted 5-2 to end 63 days of dual governorship, siding with Mr.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/020399/cy2_124-4456.shtml (1261 words)

	Former Georgia governor, senator Herman Talmadge, dies at 88: 3/22/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Talmadge was governor from 1948-55 and senator from 1957-80.
		Talmadge's father, Eugene, was a farmer who later became a lawyer and went on to serve as governor from 1933-37 and from 1941-43.
		Talmadge won the legislative vote but was kept from the governor's office by outgoing Gov. Ellis Arnall, who contended Lt. Gov.-elect M.E. Thompson was his rightful successor.
	www.s-t.com /daily/03-02/03-22-02/a10wn067.htm (633 words)

	[Deathwatch] Herman Talmadge, Ex-Georgia Gov., Senator, 88
		Talmadge also cast crucial votes in favor of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, which led to the end of U.S. control of the canal and, many believe, contributed to Talmadge's 1980 defeat at the hands of Mack Mattingly, the state's first Republican senator since Reconstruction.
		Talmadge admitted his drinking got out of hand after his 29-year-old son Robert drowned in 1975, but he said he never kept large sums of money at home.
		Talmadge added to his woes by producing 77 $100 bills she said she found in his overcoat.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-March/000080.html (779 words)

	BIOGRAPHY OF HERMAN TALMADGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Herman Eugene Talmadge was born August 9, 1913 near McRae, in Telfair County GA. He attended the University of Georgia, first at the liberal arts college, then the law school, eventually receiving his law degree and gaining admission to the bar.
		The legislature elected Herman Talmadge to serve the remainder of the term.
		That election, held in September 1948, was won by Herman Talmadge, who took office in November 1948 to serve the two remaining years of his father's term.
	www.westga.edu /~library/depts/gph/bioht.html (392 words)

	Emory Magazine \| Who Runs Georgia?
		Talmadge, who often bragged that he wouldn't campaign in any county with a streetcar, easily carried the county unit tally and became governor-elect.
		Talmadge's victory set off a tragicomic series of events that spurred a constitutional crisis, still notorious today as the "Three Governors" conflict.
		Talmadge forces then argued before the legislature that constitutional law should be interpreted to mean that they should now choose a governor from among the write-in candidates.
	www.emory.edu /EMORY_MAGAZINE/summer99/who_runs_georgia.html (1808 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Heo-Hh) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Balck served a distingished career as a regimental officer during the Great War and then during the Second World War proved himself probably Germany's finest field officer, establishing the first bridgehead across the Meuse at Sedan, and later commanding a division during the invasion of Russia, being promoted to full general because of his successes.
		HERMAN E. Herman E Talmadge was an American politician.
		HERMAN G. Herman G Kump was an American politician.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C6C.HTM (914 words)

	Bill Shipp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Talmadge won the primary (which was tantamount to election) on the basis of the county-unit system, but Cobb County businessman Jimmy Carmichael captured the most popular votes (Carmichael -- 313,899; Talmadge -- 297, 245).
		Herman Talmadge as governor continued to echo his father's racist rhetoric, though not always in such stark terms, through the 1940s and into the 1950s.
		Talmadge's long line of successors also refused to let go of the race issue.
	www.georgiatrend.com /site/page4683.html (902 words)

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