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Obituary — Jimmy Carter: The unlikely 39th president of the United States. ... President Jimmy Carter’s motorcade has arrived at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.
Smarr was the first Americus Police Officer to be killed in the line of duty for 33 years. Smith was the first Georgia Southwestern State University Department of Public Safety Officer to be killed in the line of duty for 110 years. Officers Smarr and Smith were the 136th and 137th police officers to be killed in the line of duty in 2016.
Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – October 29, 1969) was an American farmer and Baptist theologian, founder of Koinonia Farm, a small but influential religious community in southwest Georgia and the author of the Cotton Patch paraphrase of the New Testament.
Robert Paul Hanner was born in Americus, Georgia on April 19, 1945 to Jack and Yip Hanner. He attended Parrott Grammar School, Terrell High School, Gordon Military College in Barnesville and Georgia Southwestern State University. He served in the United States Coast Guard in 1967 and 1968 in South Vietnam. [1] Hanner was a farmer.
"I've always known we wanted to do something with the place," says Jess McNeill, who is the sixth generation to live in the Americus, Georgia, farmhouse first purchased by his ancestors in 1853 ...
He entered private practice in Savannah, Georgia from 1948 to 1952. He was in private practice in Rome, Georgia from 1952 to 1953 and then was in private practice at King & Spalding in Atlanta, Georgia from 1953 to 1961. He was chief of staff to Governor Ernest Vandiver from 1959 to 1961.
Born in Ellaville, Georgia, Crisp attended the public schools of Americus, Georgia. He served as clerk in the Interior Department, Washington, D.C. from 1889 to 1891. Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives 1891-1895. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Americus, Georgia. [1]
From 1917 to 1920, Pace served in the Georgia House of Representatives and then served in the Georgia Senate from 1923 to 1924. In 1936, he won election as a Democrat representing Georgia's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives during the 75th United States Congress. He was reelected to six additional terms in ...