List of Governors of Georgia - Other High Offices Held

Other High Offices Held

This is a table of congressional seats, other federal offices, and Confederate offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Georgia. * denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.

Name Gubernatorial term U.S. House U.S. Senate Other offices held Sources
George Walton 1775–1776, 1779–1780, 1789–1790 — S Continental Delegate
Archibald Bulloch 1776–1777 — — Continental Delegate
Button Gwinnett 1777 — — Continental Delegate
John Houstoun 1778–1779, 1784–1785 — — Continental Delegate
Richard Howly 1780 — — Continental Delegate
Nathan Brownson 1781–1782 — — Continental Delegate
Lyman Hall 1783–1784 — — Continental Delegate
Samuel Elbert 1785–1786 — — Elected to the Continental Congress but declined to serve
Edward Telfair 1786–1786, 1790–1793 — — Continental Delegate
George Mathews 1787–1788, 1793–1796 H —
James Jackson 1798–1801 H S*
Josiah Tattnall 1801–1802 — S
John Milledge 1802–1806 H S*
Peter Early 1813–1815 H —
George Troup 1823–1827 H S
John Forsyth 1827–1829 H† S Minister to Spain, U.S. Secretary of State
George R. Gilmer 1829–1831, 1837–1839 H —
Wilson Lumpkin 1831–1835 H S
William Schley 1835–1837 H —
George W. Crawford 1843–1847 H — U.S. Secretary of War
George W. Towns 1847–1851 H —
Howell Cobb 1851–1853 H — Speaker of the House, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, President of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Herschel V. Johnson 1853–1857 — S Confederate Senator
Joseph E. Brown 1857–1865 — S
James Johnson 1865 H —
James Milton Smith 1872–1877 — — Confederate Representative
Alfred H. Colquitt 1877–1882 H S
Alexander H. Stephens 1882–1883 H — Confederate Representative, Vice President of the Confederate States of America; elected to the U.S. Senate but was refused his seat
John Brown Gordon 1886–1890 — S
Allen D. Candler 1898–1902 H —
Joseph M. Terrell 1902–1907 — S
Hoke Smith 1907–1909, 1911 — S* U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Thomas W. Hardwick 1921–1923 H S
Richard Russell, Jr. 1931–1933 — S President pro tempore of the Senate
Herman Talmadge 1947, 1948–1955 — S
Jimmy Carter 1971–1975 — — President of the United States
Zell Miller 1991–1999 — S

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