Betty Price (born August 15, 1952) is an American politician and physician. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in the

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. T ...

as the member for the 48th district. She lost her seat to Democrat

Mary Robichaux Mary C. Robichaux (born August 24, 1955) is a Democrat who represented District 48 in the Georgia House of Representatives from January 14, 2019, until January 9, 2023. Political career In 2018, Robichaux ran for election to represent Distric ...

on November 6, 2018. Price was elected to the

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for

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, to finish an unexpired term in 2009. She successfully ran for reelection in 2011. When State Representative Harry Geisinger died in office in 2015, Price ran in a

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to succeed him. She won the election, held on July 14, 2015. Price graduated from

Cocoa Beach High School Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School (formerly Cocoa Beach High School) is a public junior/senior high school that is a part of the Brevard County Public School System with students in grades seven through twelfth located in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Foun ...

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then earned her

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from

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and her

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from

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She worked as an anesthesiologist. Her husband is former

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and

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Tom Price. In October 2017, Price was strongly criticized for "suggesting that people with HIV might be quarantined to curb the spread of the infectious disease."

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