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18-523: The officeholder is elected to a four-year term at the same time as elections are held for governor of Georgia and other offices. The current attorney general of Georgia is Christopher M. Carr . Carr was appointed by Governor Nathan Deal following the resignation of Sam Olens , who was officially appointed to the office of president of Kennesaw State University on November 1, 2016. Carr completed Olens' unexpired term, which expired in January 2019. Carr

36-664: A citizen of the United States for at least 15 years and a resident of Georgia for at least six years preceding election. The lieutenant governor is elected on their own ticket separate from the governor. They serve without term limits. The lieutenant governor's formal duties are limited by the Georgia State Constitution to serving as the President of the Senate and the successor of the governor whenever

54-412: A governor to serve a term of one year, but no more than one year out of every three. The term was lengthened to two years in 1789, but with no term limit. The 1865 constitution required governors to take four years off after serving two terms, but that was quickly changed in the 1868 constitution, which allowed four-year terms with no limits. The term length was returned to the two-year term and limit of

72-488: Is a constitutional officer of the State of Georgia , elected to a four-year term by popular vote. Unlike in some other U.S. states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the governor of Georgia . Constitutionally, the lieutenant governor's primary job is to serve as president of Georgia's Senate . In the case of incapacity of the governor, the lieutenant governor assumes their duties and power (but not

90-596: The Third Military District , which exerted some control over governor appointments and elections. Georgia was readmitted to the Union on July 25, 1868; again expelled from Congress on March 3, 1869; and again readmitted on July 15, 1870. The Rules and Regulations of the Colony, drafted in 1776, provided for a president to serve a term of 6 months. A formal constitution was drafted in 1777, providing for

108-750: The state 's military forces . Republican Brian Kemp assumed office on January 14, 2019. There have officially been 83 governors of the State of Georgia, including 11 who served more than one distinct term ( John Houstoun , George Walton , Edward Telfair , George Mathews , Jared Irwin , David Brydie Mitchell , George Rockingham Gilmer , M. Hoke Smith , Joseph Mackey Brown , John M. Slaton and Eugene Talmadge , with Herman Talmadge serving two de facto distinct terms). The longest-serving governors are George Busbee , Joe Frank Harris , Zell Miller , Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal , each of whom served two full four-year terms; Joseph E. Brown , governor during

126-480: The three governors controversy . The current lieutenant governor of Georgia is Republican Burt Jones . The office of lieutenant governor in Georgia was created by an amendment to the state constitution in 1945. The primary purpose of the office was for its incumbent to serve as a successor in the event the governorship became vacant. Melvin E. Thompson became the first person elected to the office in 1946. Due to

144-420: The 1865 constitution in 1877. The 1945 constitution changed the length of terms to four years, with governors required to take four years off before running again, and it created the office of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia , who would exercise the powers of the governor should the office become vacant. This was changed in 1983 so that the lieutenant governor fully becomes governor in that circumstance. Before

162-512: The Civil War, was elected four times, serving seven and a half years. The shortest term of the post-revolutionary period is that of Matthew Talbot , who served 13 days after succeeding his predecessor, who died in office. Eugene Talmadge died in December 1946 before taking office in his second distinct term, leading to a dispute in which three people claimed the office. Georgia was one of

180-553: The body's committees with the governor's assent. In 2003, the Senate altered its rules and granted the power of appointing committee chairs to the Senate president pro tempore. In November 2010, the Republican majority voted to change the Senate rules, stripping the Lieutenant Governor's ability to appoint the membership of Senate committees. All candidates for the office of lieutenant governor must also have been

198-463: The creation of the office of lieutenant governor, the president of the senate (or, before 1789, the president of the executive council ) would exercise the powers of governor. The 1983 constitution also allows governors to succeed themselves once, before having to wait four years to run again. The governor and the lieutenant governor are not officially elected on the same ticket. Lieutenant Governor of Georgia The lieutenant governor of Georgia

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216-474: The governorship becomes vacant due to the governor's death or a determination by the State Supreme Court that they are incapable of discharging their duties. The lieutenant governor assumes the gubernatorial powers and duties pending the next general election in the state. As President of the Senate the lieutenant governor presides over debate in the Senate. As he is not a member of the Senate,

234-589: The lieutenant governor is barred from sponsoring legislation. The Rules of the Georgia State Senate assign the president of the Senate to appoint two senators to the Committee on Assignments and to serve as the Chair of the committee, but the Chair may only vote in case of a tie. Additionally, the president is a member of and appoints three other members to the Committee on Administrative Affairs. Under

252-645: The original Thirteen Colonies and was admitted as a state on January 2, 1788. Before it declared its independence, Georgia was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain . It seceded from the Union on January 19, 1861, and was a founding member of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. Following the end of the American Civil War , Georgia during Reconstruction was part of

270-590: The outcome of the three governors controversy , he served only two months (January to March 1947) in the office, succeeding to the governorship in March 1947, pending a special election in 1948. That year, Marvin Griffin was elected to the lieutenant governorship. Griffin establish several informal precedents during his tenure, namely by assuming an active leadership role in the State Senate and by naming chairs of

288-531: The supervision of the State Senate, the President "shall as a matter of course and without debate, report the reference of bills to the proper committee." Senate pages are supervised by the president who "shall establish a program of familiarization with state government, its procedures and those duties and responsibilities which will be required of pages." As the Senate's presiding officer, the lieutenant governor can exercise influence over state legislation, though

306-411: The title). Should the governor die or otherwise leave office, the lieutenant governor assumes the office for the remainder of the term. The office of Lieutenant Governor was created by a state constitutional revision in 1945. Prior to that time, Georgia did not have such an office. Elected in 1946 (for a term to begin in 1947) Georgia's first lieutenant governor, Melvin E. Thompson became involved in

324-465: Was re-elected to a four-year term in Georgia's 2018 statewide elections and was reelected in the 2022 Georgia statewide elections . This article related to the state of Georgia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of governors of Georgia The governor of Georgia is the head of government of the U.S. state of Georgia and the commander-in-chief of

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