People in GA Studies REVIEW

This person was accused of killing Mary Phagan in an Atlanta pencil factory. He was easily convicted due to anti-Semitism.

• Ivan Allen, Jr.

• Leo Frank

• John Marshall

• Eugene Talmadge

This Creek Indian Chief signed the Treaty of Indian Springs ceding all remaining Creek land in Georgia.

• John Marshall

• John Ross

• William McIntosh

• Lester Maddox

Mayor, Civil Rights leader, U.N. Ambassador, helped bring the 1996 Olympics to Atlanta

• John Lewis

• Maynard Jackson

• Andrew Young

• Andrew Jackson

Cherokee Chief who fought against Cherokee removal in Worcester v. Georgia

• John Marshall

• John Ross

• William McIntosh

• John Lewis

This person was the subject of a court case that determined that slaves were not citizens of the United States.

• John Marshall

• Dred Scott

• Alonzo Herndon

• Booker T. Washington

Four-time GA governor who was against FDR's New Deal programs

• Herman Talmadge

• Tom Watson

• Henry Grady

• Eugene Talmadge

President of the United States who created the New Deal programs, also had a home in Warm Springs, GA where he visited to help his polio

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jimmy Carter

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first European explorer to enter Georgia, led an expedition of conquistadors through the Southeastern United States

• Hernando de Soto

• William T. Sherman

• James Oglethorpe

• Tomochichi

This man signed the Declaration of Independence. He was the youngest signer and was also a governor of GA and a U.S. Senator.

• William Few

• George Walton

• Abraham Baldwin

• Elijah Clarke

He served 25 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was a strong advocate for the U.S. Military (especially the NAVY), helped bring military bases to GA, "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy"

• Carl Vinson

• Richard B. Russell

• Eugene Talmadge

• Tom Watson