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2022 Georgia House Of Representatives Election
The 2022 Georgia House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 2022 as part of the biennial United States elections, 2020, United States elections. Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia voters elected state representatives in all 180 of the state house's districts to the 157th Georgia General Assembly. State representatives serve two-year terms in the Georgia House of Representatives. Primaries were held on May 24, 2022, and primary runoffs occurred June 21, 2022, to determine which candidates would appear on the November 8 ballot. Incumbents retiring Democrats #District 39: Erica Thomas retired. #District 40: Erick Allen retired to run for 2022 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election, lieutenant governor. #District 50: Angelika Kausche retired. #District 51: Josh McLaurin retired to run for 2022 Georgia State Senate election, state senator from District 14. #District 55: Marie Metze retired. #District 59: David Dreyer retired. #District 62: William Boddie retired to ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia House Of Representatives
The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. Republicans have had a majority in the chamber since 2005. The current House Speaker is Jan Jones. History The Georgia House of Representatives was created in during the American Revolution, making it older than the U.S. Congress. During its existence, its meeting place has moved multiple times, from Savannah to Augusta, to Louisville, to Milledgeville and finally to Atlanta in 1868.The Capitalization of Georgia Georgia State Government . (accessed June 2, 2013) In 1867, the military governor of Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dreyer
David Dreyer (born May 14, 1974) is a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives and a member of the Democratic Party representing the House District 59. Personal life and education Dreyer was born in Ringgold, Georgia and attended middle school in Roswell. He received a degree in Political Science and Religious Studies at Georgia State University in 2001. Later, Dreyer graduated from Emory University School of Law in 2004 after focusing on constitutional law and voter protection. Career Dreyer is a partner at Dreyer Sterling LLC, a law firm practicing in the areas of trial and litigation. Dreyer was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2016. He currently serves on the Higher Education, Judiciary, and Science and Technology committees in the Georgia House. In 2019, Dreyer represented State Senator Nikema Williams after she had been arrested during a protest over counting votes for the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election The 2018 Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia's 7th Congressional District
Georgia's 7th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is currently represented by Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux. The district's boundaries have been redrawn following the 2010 census, which granted an additional congressional seat to Georgia.Justice Department approves Georgia's political maps . Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Last accessed 2011-12-27 The first election using the new district boundaries (listed below) were the 2012 congressional elections. The district includes portions of the northeast |
2022 United States House Of Representatives Elections
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 2022, as part of the 2022 United States elections during incumbent president Joe Biden's term. The elections were held to elect representatives from all 435 U.S. congressional districts across each of the 50 states, as well as five non-voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited insular areas. The winners of this election will serve in the 118th United States Congress. Numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2022 U.S. Senate elections, were also held on the same date. At the time of the election, the Democratic Party had held a majority in the House since January 3, 2019, as a result of the 2018 elections, when they won 235 seats; their majority was reduced to 222 seats in 2020. Although most observers and pundits predicted large Republican gains, Democrats lost fewer seats than expected and fewer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna McLeod
Donna T. McLeod (born March 19, 1968) is a Jamaican-born American politician from Georgia. McLeod is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 105th District since 2019. She is the first Jamaican-American to become a Representative in Georgia. She defeated Republican Donna Sheldon in the 2018 election to replace retiring Representative Joyce Chandler. Political career and achievements She served as the Committee Chair for Voter Outreach and Outreach for the Gwinnett County Democratic Party and continues to be an active member of the Gwinnett Democrats. Ms. McLeod was a grassroots organizer for Senator Obama’s 2008 campaign. In 2012, she was National Director for Voter Outreach for Black Women for Obama. In 2016, she ran for State House Representative, District 105, in Gwinnett County, GA. Ms. McLeod was endorsed by President Barack Obama. She lost the race by 222 votes. Ms. McLeod ran again for State House Representative, District 105 in 2018. On Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Moore (politician)
Elizabeth Bachman Moore (born February 27, 1982) is an American attorney and former member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 95th District, serving from 2019 to 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. At the time Moore represented the 95th District it included the cities of Peachtree Corners, Berkeley Lake, Duluth, Norcross, and Johns Creek. The district included citizens of both Gwinnett and Fulton counties. As of 2022, District 95 was changed to a completely different area south of Snellville and north of Stonecrest and Conyers. Moore choose not to seek re-election in Georgia House District 95 and led an unsuccessful bid for an open seat in Georgia Senate District 7. She lost to Senator Nabilah Islam by only 78 votes. Georgia State House of Representatives 2019-2020 committee assignments * Georgia State House Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications * Georgia State House Committee on Banks and Banking * Georgia State House Committee on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Georgia Secretary Of State Election
The 2022 Georgia Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of State of Georgia. Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won re-election to a second term. Raffensperger emerged as a major national figure in early January, 2021 when he faced significant pressure from then-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The party primary elections took place on May 24, with runoffs scheduled for June 21. Trump had been taped in a phone call asking Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes," the exact number needed for Trump to carry the state. Raffensperger was elected in 2018 to a first term in a runoff against Democratic former U.S. representative John Barrow, the first time in Georgia history that any statewide executive election went to a second round. Republican primary Candidates Nominee * Brad Raffensperger, incumbent Secretary of State Eliminated in primary * David Belle Isle, former may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bee Nguyen
Bee Nguyen (born July 18, 1981) is an American nonprofit executive and politician serving as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 89th district. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected during a special election in December 2017 to fill the seat vacated following Stacey Abrams's resignation in August 2017 to focus on her run for governor. Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-American elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. Early life and education Born in Ames, Iowa, Nguyen grew up in Augusta, Georgia, and attended Georgia State University for her bachelor's and master's in English literature and an MPA in finance and management. She moved to Atlanta in 1999. Career Nguyen was previously the executive director of a nonprofit organization she founded, Athena Warehouse, a program to educate and empower girls in under-resourced communities. She is currently National Policy Advisor for New American Leaders. In November 2018, BizJournals included her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulma Lopez
Zulma P. Lopez (born May 2, 1977) is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A Democrat, Lopez represented the 86th District of the Georgia House of Representatives, which encompasses a part of metro Atlanta, from January 2021 to January 2023. On February 4, 2022, Lopez announced she would not be seeking re-election in the Georgia House of Representatives. Early life Lopez was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a B. A. in 1999, and with her J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 2003. Lopez moved to Georgia in 2007. She has owned her own law practice, Lopez Immigration LLC, since 2014. Political career In 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ..., Lopez announced that she would run f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renitta Shannon
Renitta Shanbay Shannon (born December 29, 1979) is an American politician who currently serves as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. In 2016, Shannon defeated a four-term Democratic incumbent. In January 2017, she was sworn into the Georgia State House of Representatives to represent the 84th district. In 2017, she came out as bisexual, making her the first bisexual legislator to serve in the Georgia General Assembly. Early life Shannon was born in Florida. After college, she worked in business development for a variety of sectors including mental health and financial services. In a 2019 interview, she said that she spent most of her free time as an activist on racial justice, economic justice, criminal justice, and equality issues, including as an organizer for various progressive grassroots organizations. Career She defeated incumbent representative Rahn Mayo in the Democratic primaries in 2016, and went on to win the seat unopposed in the 2016 gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Wilson (politician)
Walter Matthew Wilson (born January 11, 1984) is an American politician and lawyer from Brookhaven, Georgia who served as the Georgia State Representative for the 80th district. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated Republican incumbent Meagan Hanson in November 2018. Wilson is only the second openly gay man to be elected to the Georgia legislature. Wilson ran in the 2022 Democratic primary for Georgia's Insurance and Fire commissioner, losing to Janice Laws Robinson in a runoff. He was one of two openly-LGBT primary candidates in the 2022 Democratic primaries for state executive office, alongside Renitta Shannon who ran for Lieutenant Governor. He was succeeded in the House by Long Tran. Early life and education Wilson and his twin sister were raised in Griffin, Georgia. He holds a Bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctor from University of Georgia. Following graduation from college, he participated in the national Teach For America program, teaching sixth-grade math ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Wilensky
Michael Stephen Wilensky (born May 3, 1983) is a politician and attorney who lives in Dunwoody, Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented District 79 in the Georgia House of Representatives, which is 100% in Dekalb County. State House District 79 consists of all of Dunwoody, part of Doraville, and a small piece of Chamblee. Wilensky defeated the Republican Party opponent, Ken Wright, on November6, 2018. Wilensky won his second election in 2020 and served a second term. In February 2022, Wilensky decided not to run for reelection. Education and law career Wilensky graduated ''cum laude'' with a Bachelor's degree from University of Georgia. At UGA, Wilensky majored in Broadcast News through the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. After, Wilensky earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law. While in law school, Wilensky served as a federal law clerk to United States District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett, worked a full year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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