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Mikheil Saakashvili[nb 1] (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი [miχeˈil saakʼaˈʃʷili]; Ukrainian: Міхеіл Саакашвілі [m⁽ʲ⁾ixeˈil sɐɐkɐʃˈwil⁽ʲ⁾i]; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist. [7][8] He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive ...
The revolution was led by Shevardnadze's former political allies, Mikheil Saakashvili, Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania. Consisting of twenty days of protests from 3 to 23 November 2003, the Revolution triggered new presidential and parliamentary elections in Georgia, which brought the National Movement–Democrats coalition to the power. [2]
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Southern Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist [1] when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, the Pickrick, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Ellis Gibbs Arnall (March 20, 1907 – December 13, 1992) [1] was an American politician who served as the 69th Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. [2] A liberal Democrat, he helped lead efforts to abolish the poll tax and to reduce Georgia's voting age to 18.
Photo uploaded with permission of the National Nineteenth Amendment Society. Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
Stacey Yvonne Abrams (/ ˈeɪbrəmz /; [ 1 ] born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. [ 2 ] A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to ...
The reforms in education led to massive firings in the academic sector to remove Soviet era leadership. The local self-government was centralized, which led to the abolition of thousands of elected village councils. The legislation concerning thieves-in-law was tightened to reduce the influence of the underworld on the public life.
Irakli Okruashvili, the former Defence Minister and the leader of the opposition Movement for United Georgia party. While Saakashvili early on enjoyed personal popularity for his youth, vigor, and international profile, allegations of human rights abuses and authoritarianism started to create an opposition movement against him.