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 |
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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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