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Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first female U.S. senator, representing Georgia in the Senate for one day in 1922, [1] having been appointed to the seat to replace Thomas E. Watson after his death in September 1922. Richard Russell Jr. was the state's longest serving senator, served from 1933 to 1971.
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock [1] (/ ˈ r ɑː f i ɛ l ˈ w ɔː r n ɒ k / RAH-fee-el WOR-nok; born July 23, 1969) is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021.
In 2020, Ossoff won the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Georgia, beating incumbent Republican senator David Perdue in a runoff election. Ossoff is the youngest member of the Senate elected since Don Nickles in 1980 , as well as the first senator born in the 1980s, and the first millennial United States senator.
Georgia became a U.S. state in 1788, which allowed it to send congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms.
The most prominent woman in the state of Georgia during the Progressive Era, she was honored near the end of her life by a symbolic one-day appointment to the Senate. Felton was sworn in on November 21, 1922, and served just 24 hours. At the age of 87, she was the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate.
Georgia could join other states requiring children to have their parents' explicit permission to create social media accounts. Two top Republicans in the Georgia state Senate — Lt. Gov. Burt ...
Whig Party United States senators from Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) Pages in category "United States senators from Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia said Kennedy had compared the work of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to “Nazi death camps.” Kennedy said, “Senator, I don’t believe that ...