The son of sharecroppers in Webster County became one of the longest serving U.S. senators in Georgia history. Walter F. George graduated from Mercer Law School and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. He supported early New Deal programs but broke with President Franklin D. Roosevelt over his attempt to pack the Supreme […]

Learn More – Robert Toombs William Wade Brewton, The Son of Thunder: An Epic of the South (Richmond, Va.: Garrett and Massie, 1936). Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, The Life of Robert Toombs (1913; reprint, New York: B. Franklin, 1968). Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, ed. The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb (New York: […]

Learn More – James Jackson William Omer Foster Sr., James Jackson, Duelist and Militant Georgia Statesman, 1757-1806 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960). George R. Lamplugh, “‘Oh the Colossus, the Colossus’: James Jackson and the Jeffersonian Republican Party in Georgia, 1796-1806,” Journal of the Early Republic 9 (1989). George R. Lamplugh , Politics on the […]

Learn More – Walter F. George Josephine Mellichamp, Senators from Georgia (Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976). Val G. Mixon, “The Foreign Policy Statesmanship of Senator Walter F. George: 1955-1956,” West Georgia College Review 6 (1973): 29-41. Luther Harmon Zeigler Jr. “Senator Walter George’s 1938 Campaign,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 43 (winter 1959): 333-52. “President Franklin Roosevelt’s […]

Learn More – Joel Chandler Harris Born R. Bruce Bickley Jr., Critical Essays on Joel Chandler Harris (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981). R. Bruce Bickley Jr., Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987). Walter M. Brasch, Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the ‘Cornfield Journalist’: The Tale of Joel […]