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James Lester Gillis Jr. (October 2, 1916 – February 26, 2018) was an American politician in the state of Georgia. [1] Gillis was born in Locust Grove to the prominent Gillis family of Soperton, Georgia. [2] His grandfather, Neil L. Gillis, was the founder of Treutlen County, Georgia and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Gillis served as a Democrat in the Georgia House of Representatives for twelve years and then the Georgia State Senate from 1962 to 2004 before retiring; [2] when he retired, Gillis was the longest-serving member of the Georgia General Assembly. [1] He died in Vidalia, Georgia on January 1, 2013. [3]
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Pages in category "People from Soperton, Georgia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Hugh Gillis;
The county is made up of former sections of Emanuel and Montgomery counties, and is named for John A. Treutlen, [4] Georgia's first state governor following adoption of the state Constitution of 1777. By this time, as Soperton had become larger than Lothair, it was the clear choice for county seat. [3]
Soperton is a city in Treutlen County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,889 in 2020. The population was 2,889 in 2020. The city is the county seat of Treutlen County.
The Court also found that the death penalty "comports with the basic concept of human dignity at the core of the [Eighth] Amendment". The death penalty serves two principal social purposes—retribution and deterrence. "In part, capital punishment is an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct".