The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics

by Charles S. Bullock III (Author), Scott E. Buchanan (Author), Ronald Keith Gaddie (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2015

  $56.19

  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. This is the first full-length examination of that historic episode.