Herman Talmadge
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When his father, Eugene Talmadge, won the 1946 Georgia gubernatorial election but died before taking office, Herman Talmadge asserted claims to be the 70th governor of Georgia, in what became known as the three governors controversy. He occupied the governor's office from January until March 1947, before yielding to a Georgia Supreme Court decision in favor of Lieutenant Governor Melvin E. Thompson. In 1948, Talmadge defeated Thompson by more than 6 percent in a special election to complete the elder Talmadge's unfinished four-year term. He was reelected in 1950, defeating Thompson by a narrower margin. Talmadge served until the end of his term in 1955.
Talmadge, who first became governor at age 33, supported a new statewide sales tax during his second term to fund the construction of new schools and expanded state services. He also supported other infrastructure improvements and increased teachers' salaries. In so doing, the younger governor Talmadge departed from his father's stingy, low-tax and low-spending philosophy while remaining steadfastly opposed to racial desegregation and political equality for Black Americans. He left the governor's office as an incredibly popular executive whose administration earned praised from the traditionally liberal outlets such as the ''Atlanta Constitution'' and even ''Harper's Magazine.''
Herman Talmadge was elected to the United States Senate in 1956 when Walter F. George, Georgia's senior senator and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, declined to seek reelection. In the Senate, Talmadge was a long-serving member of the Senate Agriculture Committee as well as the Senate Finance Committee. During the latter part of his career, he also served as a member of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (better known as the Senate Watergate Committee). As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, he oversaw the passage of numerous pieces of important legislation, including the expansion of the Child Nutrition Act and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972, the first major legislation dealing with rural development since the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. The Senate later denounced Talmadge for financial irregularities revealed a Senate Ethics Committee investigation following a contentious divorce from his second wife. The investigation, as well as Georgia's changing demographics, helped Republican Mack Mattingly defeat Talmadge during his 1980 reelection campaign. Following his defeat, Talmadge retired from public life. Provided by Wikipedia
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Amending section 112 of Internal Revenue Code of 1954. April 11, 1972. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Rural disaster recovery act of 1972. July 24, 1972. -- Ordered to be printed.
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State taxation with respect to sales in interstate commerce. June 14, 1960. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Preservation of cotton acreage allotments. March 11, 1958. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Rural telephone bank. February 4, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Defining the term "child" for purposes of title 38, United States Code. April 23, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Increase in veterans' disability compensation. April 23, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Recoupment of disability severance pay. April 23, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Veterans' Administration regional office in the Philippines. June 16, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Increasing the limitation on real estate loans made or insured by the Farmers Home Administration. December 15, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Increase in veterans' pensions. December 15, 1970. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Emergency farm loan funds. May 16 (legislative day, May 14), 1968. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Farm Credit Administration amendments. June 6, 1968. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Farm Credit Administration interest rates. November 16, 1967. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Peanut acreage allotments transfers. December 8, 1967. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Crude pine gum price support. December 8, 1967. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Loans on leased land in Hawaii. July 8, 1968. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Cotton research and promotion. June 13, 1966. -- Ordered to be printed. Filed under authority of the order of the Senate of June 13, 1966.
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Farm real estate loans on leased lands in Hawaii. June 14, 1966. -- Ordered to be printed. Filed under authority of the order of the Senate of June 13, 1966.
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Dismemberment insurance coverage under servicemen's group life insurance. September 16, 1969. -- Ordered to be printed.
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