GaFocus - 3 Governors Controversy of 1947

Georgia Focus · May 13, 2020 · 26m

Three Governors Controversy - The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official. The first full-length examination of that episode is in the form of a book titled The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics authored by Charles Bullock, Professor of Political Science at UGA, Scott Buchanan, Associate Professor of…