127th Georgia General Assembly
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{{Infobox legislative session
| name = 127th Georgia General Assembly
| image = File:Seal of Georgia.svg
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| alt = Great Seal of the State of Georgia
| caption = Great Seal of the State of Georgia
| body = Georgia General Assembly
| meeting_place = Capitol Building - Atlanta
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| before = 126th
| after = 128th
| chamber1 = Senate
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| membership1 = 54
| control1 = Democratic Party
| chamber1_leader1_type = President of the Senate
| chamber1_leader1 = Peter Zack Geer
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| chamber2 = House of Representatives
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| membership2 = 205
| control2 = Democratic Party
| chamber2_leader1_type = Speaker of the House
| chamber2_leader1 = George T. Smith
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| session1_start = {{Start date|1963|01|14}}
| session1_end = {{End date|1963|03|15}}
| session2_start = {{Start date|1964|01|13}}
| session2_end = {{End date|1964|02|21}}
| special_session1_start = {{Start date|1964|03|04}}
| special_session1_end = {{End date|1965|06|25}}
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The 127th Georgia General Assembly convened its first session on January 14, 1963, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-macon-news/163268314/|title=1963 Georgia Legislature Swings Into Motion Today|first=Gene|last=Britton|work=The Macon News|date=January 14, 1963|access-date=January 17, 2025|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-journal/163268088/|title=Legislature Convenes With Changes on Tap|first=Charles|last=Pou|work=The Atlanta Journal|date=January 14, 1963|access-date=January 17, 2025|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} The 128th Georgia General Assembly succeeded the 126th and served as the precedent for the 128th in 1965.
Jimmy Carter was elected to serve his first of two terms in the Georgia State Senate this session.
Members of the State Senate
class="wikitable sortable"
!District !Senator !Party !Residence | |||
1 | Frank O. Downing | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Savannah |
2 | William Searcey | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Savannah |
3 | Joseph Tribble | {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican | Savannah |
4 | Clinton Oliver | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Glenville |
5 | John M. Gayner, III | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Brunswick |
6 | William Zorn | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Jesup |
7 | Talmadge McKinnon | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Willacoochee |
8 | Robert Rowan | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Enigma |
9 | Ford Spinks | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Tifton |
10 | Glenn Pelham | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Cairo |
11 | Julian Webb | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Donalsonville |
12 | Al Holloway | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Albany |
13 | Martin Young | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Rebecca |
14 | Jimmy Carter | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Plains |
15 | A. Perry Gordy | {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican | Columbus |
16 | Harry Jackson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Republican | Columbus |
17 | Garland Byrd | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Reynolds |
18 | Stanley Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Perry |
19 | Roy Noble | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Vienna |
20 | Hugh Gillis | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Soperton |
21 | Milton Carlton | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Swainsboro |
22 | J. B. Fuqua | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Augusta |
23 | Milford Scott | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Augusta |
24 | Wyck Knox | {{party shading/Independent}} | Independent | Thomson |
25 | Culver Kidd Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Milledgeville |
26 | William Hunt | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Macon |
27 | Taylor Phillips | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Macon |
28 | Robert H. Smalley Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Griffin |
29 | Roland Heard | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | West Point |
30 | Lamar Plunkett | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Bowdon |
31 | Albert F. Moore | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Cedartown |
32 | Edward Kendrick | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Marietta |
33 | Kyle Yancey | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | |Austell |
34 | Charlie Brown | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
35 | Frank E. Coggin | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Hapeville |
36 | Joe Salome | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
37 | James Wesberry | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
38 | Leroy Johnson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
39 | Oby Brewer | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
40 | Dan MacIntyre | {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican | Atlanta |
41 | McKinley Conway | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
42 | Ben F. Johnson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Atlanta |
43 | William McWhorter | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Decatur |
44 | Thomas Ellis | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | McDonough |
45 | Brooks Pennington | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Madison |
46 | Paul C. Broun Sr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Athens |
47 | Robert Lee | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Hartwell |
48 | Harold Harrison | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Bethlehem |
49 | Erwin Owens | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Dahlonega |
50 | Zell Miller | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Young Harris |
51 | Jack Fincher | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Canton |
52 | James Battle Hall | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Rome |
53 | Joseph Loggins | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Summerville |
54 | Charles Pannell (res.) | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic | Chatsworth |
54 | Reese Thomas | {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican | Dalton |
Members of the House
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!County !Representative !Party | ||
Appling | Curtis Herndon | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Atkinson | Waldo Henderson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bacon | Hugh Deen | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Baker | J. R. Rhodes Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Baldwin | John Floyd Harrington | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Baldwin | Phillip Chandler | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Banks | John Simmons | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Barrow | James Paris | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bartow | William Greene | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bartow | J.R. Cullens | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Ben Hill | Arthur Dorminy | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Berrien | William Knight | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bibb | Denmark Groover Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bibb | Michael House | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bibb | William Laite | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bleckley | James Mullis | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Brantley | Hoke Wilson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Brooks | Henry Reaves | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bryan | Jack Shuman | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bulloch | W. Jones Lane | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Bulloch | Paul Nessmith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Burke | Memory Tucker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Butts | Bailey Woodward | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Calhoun | William Jordan | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Camden | Nolan Wells | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Camden | Charles Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Candler | Hines Brantley | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Carroll | Joseph Elvin | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Carroll | Hayne Waldrop (res.) | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Carroll | William Wiggins | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Catoosa | Joe Tucker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Charlton | Henry Rodgers | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Chatham | Willis Richardson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Chatham | Arthur Funk | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Chatham | Bart Shea | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Chattahoochee | Joseph King (dcd.) | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
1 | Floyd Hudgins | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Chattooga | James Floyd | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Cherokee | Grady Coker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Cherokee | Marion Pope | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Clarke | Chappelle Matthews | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Clarke | William Bedgood | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Clay | Henry McKemie | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Clayton | Edgar Blalock | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Clayton | Bill Lee | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Clinch | Grover Lee | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Cobb | Elmer Teague | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Cobb | Robert Flournoy | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Cobb | Joe Wilson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Coffee | George Williams | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Coffee | Henry Milhollin | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Colquitt | Dorsey Matthews | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Colquitt | David Newton | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Columbia | G.S. Phillips | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Cook | Wilson Wilkes | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Coweta | Henry Payton | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Coweta | D.B. Blalock | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Crawford | John Scarborough Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Crisp | Howard H. Rainey | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dade | Maddox Hale | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dawson | Ralph W. Bowen | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Decatur | J. Willis Conger | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Decatur | Robert Griffin | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
DeKalb | James MacKay | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
DeKalb | Guy Rutland | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
DeKalb | J. Robin Harris | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dodge | Williamson Stuckey | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dooly | Thomas I. Sangster | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dougherty | George Busbee | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dougherty | Colquitt Odom | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Dougherty | William Lee | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Douglas | Alpha Fowler | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Early | Leon Baughman | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Echols | Louis Raulerson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Effingham | B. Frank Arnsdorff | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Elbert | A.S. Johnson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Emanuel | Geo Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Evans | G. Ed Perry | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Fannin | A.C. Duncan | {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican |
Fayette | A. Hewlette Herrel | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Floyd | Sidney Lowrey | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Floyd | J.E. Jordan | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Forsyth | A.C. Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Franklin | C. Patrick Milford | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Fulton | Wilson Brooks | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Fulton | Jack Etheridge | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Fulton | Ralph McClelland | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Gilmer | B.C. Logan | {{party shading/Republican}} | Republican |
Glascock | W.G. Todd | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Glynn | William R. Killian | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Glynn | Joe Isenberg | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Gordon | Troy Causby | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Grady | George T. Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Greene | Allen P. Roper | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Gwinnett | Handsell Morgan | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Habersham | Richard Russel Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Hall | W.M. Williams | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Hall | Howard Overby | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Hancock | Marvin E. Moate | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Haralson | Tom Murphy | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Harris | William Steis | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Hart | M. Parks Brown | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Heard | Truitt Davis | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Henry | Edward McGarity (res.) | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Henry | Ray Tucker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Houston | David Peterson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Houston | Paul Stalnaker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Irwin | Harry Mixon | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Jackson | Mac Barber | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Jasper | Roy R. Kelly | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Jeff Davis | James L. Conner | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Jefferson | Roy McCracken | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Jenkins | A. Sid Newton | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Johnson | Emory Rowland | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Jones | Corbin Roberts | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lamar | Haygood Keadle | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lanier | Robert Pafford | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Laurens | D.W. Knight | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Laurens | WM. Malcolm Towson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lee | H. Goodwin Hall | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Liberty | Charles M. Jones | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lincoln | Henry F. Partridge | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Long | J. Tyron Shaw | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lowndes | W.J. Gibbons | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lowndes | Fred H. Walker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Lumpkin | Fred Jones Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Macon | J. Paul Sinclair | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Madison | Edwin Poss | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Marion | Eldridge W. Perry | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
McDuffie | Leonard Lokey | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
McIntosh | Daniel H. White | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Meriwether | Render Hill | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Miller | Buck Tabb | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Mitchell | Frank Twitty | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Monroe | Harold G. Clarke | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Montgomery | Joe Underwood | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Morgan | E. Roy Lambert | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Murray | Gerald Leonard | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Muscogee | Harry Dicus | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Muscogee | Milton Jones | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Muscogee | Mac Pickard | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Newton | William Ballard | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Newton | Jack H. Morgan | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Oconee | Hubert Wells | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Oglethorpe | George B. Brooks | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Paulding | George Bagby | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Peach | D. Warner Wells | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Pickens | Will Poole | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Pierce | Francis Houston | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Pike | Caleb Watson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Polk | John Harvey Moore | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Polk | Nathan Dean | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Pulaski | John Anderson Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Putnam | Nevils Horton Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Quitman | Joe Hurst | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Rabun | Knox Bynum | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Randolph | A'Delbert Bowen | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Richmond | William Fleming | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Richmond | James Hull Jr | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Richmond | John Chapman Bell | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Rockdale | Clarence R. Vaughn Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Schley | Martin Eugene DeVane | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Screven | Henry Walstein Parker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Seminole | J.O. Brackin | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Spalding | Arthur Key Bolton | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Spalding | Quimby Melton Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Stephens | James Allen Andrews | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Stewart | Sam S. Singer | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Sumter | William Blair | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Sumter | John William Sewell | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Sumter | Jesse Watts | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Taliferro | Wales Flynt | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Tatnall | Hogan Kirkland | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Taylor | Ralph Underwood | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Telfair | Edgar Smith Jr | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Terrell | Ed Fulford | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Thomas | James Keyton | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Thomas | Henry Russell Jr | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Tift | W. Frank Branch | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Tift | Henry Banks Allen | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Toombs | Ross Bowen | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Towns | John Acree | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Treutlen | J. Wyman Fowler | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Troup | James Crawford Ware | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Troup | Harry Spikes | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Turner | Roy Coker | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Twiggs | Homer Chance | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Twiggs | James Beck | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Union | William Meeks Jr | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Upson | Johnnie L. Caldwell | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Walker | William Shaw Abney | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Walker | Wayne Snow Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Walton | John Byrd | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Ware | William Ponsell | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Ware | Harry D. Dixon | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Ware | Bobby Ware Johnson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Washington | Thomas Carr | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wayne | James E. Warren | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Webster | James Black | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wheeler | Mackie Simpson | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
White | Thomas McDonald Jr. | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Whitfield | Virgil Smith | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Whitfield | Thomas Marvin Mitchell | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wilcox | Cecil Crummey (dcd.) | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wilcox | Joe Dennard | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wilkes | William Lindsey (dcd.) | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wilkes | John G. Wright | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Wilkinson | E. Brooks Lewis | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
Worth | David Campbell Jones | {{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic |
See also
References
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External links
- [https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/data/dlg/sreg/pdfs/dlg_sreg_1963.pdf Georgia's Official Register 1963-1964]
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