Abstract

Buzz Windrip-Governor of Georgia

This article presents the author's views on the Governor of Georgia. In 1907 Eugene Talmadge graduated from the law school of the University of Georgia. After a brief and sorry attempt to practice law in Atlanta, he went back to central Georgia. He settled in Teifair County, five miles from the county seat, McRae. Rapidly he went native again. He was a good Baptist, a sound Democrat, a Sigma Nu, and strong for fertilizer without sand. Above all, he was a pillar of White Supremacy, not loudly but with the assured bigotry of the cracker born and bred. From 1912 on he mainly farmed. He dabbled in parochial politics more and more. In 1918 he achieved the solicitorship of the McRae City Court. From 1920 to 1923 he was attorney for Telfair County. Eugene Talmadge was slowly rising in the Georgia veldt.