Harold Paulk Henderson is a retired political science professor at

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) is a public college in Tifton, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia and offers baccalaureate and associate degrees. The college is named after Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the Uni ...

(ABAC) in

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and an author. He wrote books on Georgia governors

Ellis Arnall Ellis Gibbs Arnall (March 20, 1907December 13, 1992) was an American politician who served as the 69th Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. A liberal Democrat, he helped lead efforts to abolish the poll tax and to reduce Georgia's voting age ...

and

Ernest Vandiver Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr. (July 3, 1918 – February 21, 2005) was an American politician who was the 73rd Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1959 to 1963. Early life and career Vandiver was born in Canon in Franklin County in northe ...

. Recordings of the interviews he conducted for the books have been collected by the

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in its Civil Rights Collection and in the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

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along with eight VHS recordings from a symposium on Georgia governors he directed along with Gary L. Roberts at ABAC in 1985.

Bibliography

*Ernest Vandiver, Governor of Georgia, 2000 *The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall, University of Georgia Press, 1991 *Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee, co-editor with Gary L. Roberts, 1988 *Several entries in the New Georgia Encyclopedia

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