126th Georgia General Assembly
The 126th Georgia General Assembly convened its first session in January 1963, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. The members were elected in the 1960 Georgia Senate and Georgia House elections.[1][2] It was the last all-white General Assembly in member composition.
| 126th Georgia General Assembly | |||||
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| Legislative body | Georgia General Assembly | ||||
| Meeting place | Capitol Building - Atlanta | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 54 | ||||
| President of the Senate | Garland T. Byrd | ||||
| Party control | Democratic Party | ||||
| House of Representatives | |||||
| Members | 205 | ||||
| Speaker of the House | George L. Smith | ||||
| Party control | Democratic Party | ||||
| Sessions | |||||
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Members of the Senate
| District | Senator | Party | Residence |
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| 1 | Spence Grayson | Democratic | Savannah |
| 2 | Charles Warnell | Pembroke | |
| 3 | W. C. Long | Nahunta | |
| 4 | Oscar E. Raynor | Folkston | |
| 5 | W. K. Ponsell | Waycross | |
| 6 | Dan J. DeLoach | Statenville | |
| 7 | J. Roland Clanton | Thomasville | |
| 8 | J. Willis Conger | Bainbridge | |
| 9 | Charles E. Dows | Edison | |
| 10 | Jack Bell | Leesburg | |
| 11 | J. T. Dailey | Cuthbert | |
| 12 | Robert McKenzie | Georgetown | |
| 13 | John Thomas McKenzie | Montezuma | |
| 14 | James M. Dykes | Cochran | |
| 15 | John C. Peterson | Ailey | |
| 16 | William Malcolm Towson | Dublin | |
| 17 | A. Sid Newton | Millen | |
| 18 | Carl Sanders | Augusta | |
| 19 | W. Tom Veazey | Warrenton | |
| 20 | Floyd Harrington | Milledgeville | |
| 21 | J. W. Claxton | Wrightsville | |
| 22 | Robert Ogden Persons Sr | Forsyth | |
| 23 | W. T. Jones | Roberta | |
| 24 | Harry C. Jackson | Columbus | |
| 25 | Elisha Mullins Whisnant | Hamilton | |
| 26 | Robert H. Smalley Jr. | Griffin | |
| 27 | Talmadge Harden | Commerce | |
| 28 | E. R. Lambert | Madison | |
| 29 | Edgar D. Clary Jr | Harlem | |
| 30 | A. F. Seagraves | Hull | |
| 31 | C. L. Ayers | Toccoa | |
| 32 | Erwin Owens | Dahlonega | |
| 33 | Howard Overby | Gainesville | |
| 34 | W. Hugh McWhorter | Decatur | |
| 35 | Eugene Kelly | Monroe | |
| 36 | D. B. Blalock | Newnan | |
| 37 | Earl Staples | Carrollton | |
| 38 | Samuel U. Braly | Dallas | |
| 39 | J. L. White | Douglasville | |
| 40 | Zell Miller | Young Harris | |
| 41 | Charles Emerson Waters | Ellijay | |
| 42 | William Ingram | Cartersville | |
| 43 | Erwin Mitchell | Dalton | |
| 44 | Gaston V. Green | Rising Fawn | |
| 45 | Otto Griner | Ocilla | |
| 46 | O. D. Johnson | Blackshear | |
| 47 | Sam J. Gardner Jr. | Moultrie | |
| 48 | Elden Mathews | Cordele | |
| 49 | Ed Perry | Claxton | |
| 50 | Hamilton McWhorter Jr | Lexington | |
| 51 | Mark Fitzpatrick | Jeffersonville | |
| 52 | Charlie Brown | Atlanta | |
| 53 | Dan Hart | Quitman | |
| 54 | Gordon Knox | Hazlehurst |
Members of the House of Representatives
See also
References
- ^ "Members of the General Assembly of Georgia, State Senate and House of Representatives, second session of term 1961-62 [Jan. 1962] - Digital Library of Georgia". dlg.usg.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-04.
- ^ "Manual of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia, 1961-1962 - Digital Library of Georgia". dlg.usg.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-04.