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Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - Correspondence to Cooperating Societies

 Series
Identifier: 001-12-053
Scope and Contents

This is a small series of several folders which deal with ways to accomplish the goals of the Bicentennial Commission. These records are primarily concerned with plans for establishing statewide committees to accomplish specific aspects of the Bicentennial celebration (i.e. graphic arts, drama and pageantry, historical window display committee).

Dates: Created: 1931-1932

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - County Correspondence and Reference Material

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Identifier: 001-12-050
Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence relating to the following subjects: (1) requests for and information of county committees for the observance of the bicentennial, (2) plans for bicentennial festivities and activities and related publicity for these occasions, (3) plans for preparing and distributing commemorative items, and (4) requests for state published bicentennial literature. Statistical and geographical information is included for each county. The extent of material varies for each...
Dates: Created: 1931-1932

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - Executive Commission Minutes and Progress Reports

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Identifier: 001-12-048
Scope and Contents This series contains the minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee and periodic progress reports from the Executive Committee to those groups and persons affiliated with the Bicentennial Commission. Other papers indicate the specific workings of the committee and include: (1) appropriation reports, (2) reference material, (3) resolutions, (4) acceptances of Executive Committee appointees, (5) lists of persons forming specific committees and invitation lists, (6) letterheads, and...
Dates: Created: 1931-1932

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - General Correspondence

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Identifier: 001-12-049
Scope and Contents

This series contains suggestions from the Executive Committee and other interested parties, the announcement of meetings, resignations and appointments of the executive committee of the Bicentennial Commission. The correspondence is filed under: (1) the name of the member of the Executive Committee to whom it was written, and (2) the name of a person with whom the committee members found it necessary to correspond regularly.

Dates: Created: 1931-1933

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - Honorary Committee Appointees Correspondence

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Identifier: 001-12-052
Scope and Contents This series contains replies to a letter written by Governor Eugene Talmadge to various persons requesting them to serve as First Vice-Presidents to the Honorary Committee of the Georgia Bicentennial. Honorary President was to be President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt and representatives asked to serve with him included: (1) consuls of foreign governments, (2) judges of superior courts, (3) judges of state courts of appeals, (4) Georgia Supreme Court judges, (5) state senators, (6) state...
Dates: Created: 1931-1932

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - Special Bicentennial Projects Correspondence

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Identifier: 001-12-054
Scope and Contents

This series contains material relating to various projects, pageants, and celebrations which were attempted to accomplish the goals of the Bicentennial Commission. Examples of some activities described in this series are: (1) Georgia History Work, (2) Patrons Committee Plaque Project, (3) school programs, (4) Maritime Day Project, and (5) meeting of the 13 Original States.

Dates: Created: 1931-1932

Governor - Georgia Bicentennial Commission - Statements, Press Releases and Correspondence

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Identifier: 001-12-055
Scope and Contents

This series contains statements in response to inquiries for information on various phases of the Georgia Bicentennial Commission's work, press releases issued from the Executive Director (A.R. Rogers) about specific activities, publications stating the purpose of the Commission and information pertinent to education about the state of Georgia, and miscellaneous correspondence relating to specific publicity plans.

Dates: Created: 1931-1932

Governor - Georgia Science and Technology Commission - Minutes

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Identifier: 001-14-156
Scope and Contents The Georgia Science and Technology Commission was created in 1964 as a successor to the Georgia Nuclear Advisory Commission to keep the Governor and the Georgia General Assembly informed of the progress and opportunities in science and technology so that Georgia might play a greater role in various national programs in the field. The commission consists of between 30 and 40 science oriented members appointed by the Governor. This series includes Minutes of both the full commission meetings...
Dates: Created: 1965-1972

Governor - Judicial Processes Commission - Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes Report

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Identifier: 001-19-100
Scope and Contents This printed report was submitted in response to an executive order of June 4, 1971, establishing the Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes. In the order, Governor Jimmy Carter articulated the duties of the commission, namely to "make recommendations for the improvement of our judicial system for consideration by the people of Georgia and at the 1972 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia." The report contains a list of commission members and a table of contents which indicates in...
Dates: Created: 1971

Governor - Judicial Processes Commission - Survey Data Collection Sheets

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Identifier: 001-19-119
Scope and Contents By direction of the Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes, law students surveyed ten of the State's 42 judicial circuits. It was felt that these ten circuits, including 32 counties both rural and urban, distributed around the State and containing almost 50% of the State's population, would provide a good cross section sample for analyzing the activities of the courts and identifying many of the problems common to all Georgia courts. This series is composed of the Data Collection...
Dates: Created: 1971-1971

Governor - Judicial Processes Commission - Survey of Current Operations and Recommendations

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Identifier: 001-19-069
Scope and Contents This series is the printed final report of the Governor's Commission on Judicial Processes. The Commission contracted Ernst and Ernst, an Atlanta consulting firm, to survey the volume and type of legal cases flowing through the state court system, to review the existing records and procedures and to canvass key personnel involved in the day‑to‑day operation of the courts. The results of this survey provide the basis for recommendations for improvements in procedure and in the...
Dates: Created: 1973-1973

Governor - Legal Division - Executive Minutes Working Papers

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Identifier: 001-07-105
Scope and Contents This series contains (1) Executive Orders, (2) stays of execution, (3) resignations of state and local officials, (4) veto messages, (5) referendum proclamations, (6) some formal legal agreements, (7) certifications of Presidential electors and Federal office holders and (8) related correspondence. All these papers are used as source materials for the compilations of the bound Executive Minutes (Sub-Group 1, Series 3). Not all the materials in these files, however, actually become...
Dates: Created: 1964-1982

Governor - Legal Division - Legal Division Subject Files

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Identifier: 001-07-067
Scope and Contents This series consists files from the Legal Division of the Governor's Office used as resource material for legal matters involving the Executive Department as well as in preparing the Executive Minutes. The files cover a wide range of subjects including, but not limited to, legislation, government officials, state agencies, authorities and commissions. In many cases, copies of Executive Orders are included among the materials.The series also contains extensive information on...
Dates: Created: 1960-2018

Governor - Minority Affairs - Subject Files

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Identifier: 001-23-132
Scope and Contents Rev. Robert L. "Jackey" Beavers was Governor Joe Frank Harris’s executive assistant for minority affairs and small business from 1983 to 1990. He provided constituent information and solved problems, primarily for African-Americans, small businesses, and religious leaders, and kept the governor informed of events in these areas. He also served as the governor’s liaison with commissions, organizations and task forces related to African-Americans, civil rights, and small business, both...
Dates: Created: 1986-1990

Governor - Policy Dept. - Year 2000 (Y2K) Subject Files

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Identifier: 001-29-161
Scope and Contents This series consists of those records created and kept by the Governor’s Office to deal with the Y2K computer issue. The Year 2000 (Y2K) issue centered on the fact that many computer systems and other information technologies were not designed to recognize dates after 1999. While simple to define, the implications were global. Any system application, embedded technology or hardware environment that used date driven calculations had the potential to function incorrectly or not at all as a...
Dates: Created: 1999-1999

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Bonds

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Identifier: 001-02-021
Scope and Contents Also included are registers of escheator fidelity bonds posted by Georgia county "escheators" as security. These bound registers were created in the Office of the Governor. They relate to the posting of performance bonds by county escheators. The clerk of the Inferior Court of each county was the administrator for the estates of persons who died intestate. This was in the tradition and meaning of escheat which was the reversion of property back to the Crown when no blood heirs survived....
Dates: Created: 1793-1948

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Bonds and Resignations of County Officials

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Identifier: 001-02-032
Scope and Contents

These records are concerned with the functions of informing the Governor of the appointment or election of county officials, commissioning these officials, making certain that the officials are properly bonded and resignations of these officials.

Dates: Created: 1780-1959

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Commissions of Officials Lists

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Identifier: 001-02-066
Scope and Contents This series contains unbound papers relating to the commissioning of state officials by the Governor's Office prior to 1948. After this date the functions of the Governor's Office were transferred to the Secretary of State. Specific documents include: (1) dedimus potestatems, (2) certifications of elected state officials, (3) oaths, (4) bonds. The state offices included in these records are: (1) State superintendent of banks, (2) Railroad commissioner, (3) Health Board members, (4) Medical...
Dates: Created: 1838-1928

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Contested Elections for Commissioned Officials

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Identifier: 001-02-063
Scope and Contents All contested elections for officers commissioned by the Governor are referred to the Governor's office. Each contestant must notify the Governor immediately of his decision to contest the election. Then within twenty days of this announcement the contestant must forward to the Governor his charges against the contestee stating the grounds for the contest, the time and place of taking testimony for the case and the name of the officer before whom the testimony is to be taken. The...
Dates: Created: 1832-1964

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County and State Officials Performance Bonds

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Identifier: 001-02-034
Scope and Contents This series contains two basic forms. The most common is the state form which indicated that the official, either state or county, as principal had secured at least two and not more than ten solvent individuals who were permanent Georgia residents as sureties who bound the principal to the Governor of Georgia. A specific sum was indicated and the term of the bond corresponded to a specific term in office. The second form is a notarized legal document drawn up by a bonding company and...
Dates: Created: 1815-1920

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County Officers Lists

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Identifier: 001-02-064
Scope and Contents

This series consists of lists furnished the Governor's office by the various county ordinaries of the county officers not included in the regular list of county officers elected. All offices are included either arranged on an individual county form or a state‑wide sheet. In the latter case, when changes in offices were made, the old names were struck out and the new typed in. Not all counties are represented for all offices.

Dates: Created: 1933-1936

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County Officials Commissions Registers

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Identifier: 001-02-035-1
Scope and Contents This series consists of registers that record the commissions issued by the Governor to the County Ordinary to acknowledge and verify duly elected county officials. A commission was sent with a dedimus potestatem from the Governor to the county ordinary who conferred the oath of office and returned a portion of the dedimus potestatem as a verification of qualification to the Secretary of State, to confirm the candidate for office. The county officers confirmed in this series include: (1) ...
Dates: Created: 1799-1956

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County/City/Criminal Judges Commissions

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Identifier: 001-02-035-5
Scope and Contents

The governor of the state was empowered by the Georgia Constitution of 1789 to grant commissions to military and civil officers. These commissions were filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. This series includes: 1) name of person commissioned and for what office; 2) date of commission; 3) when qualified, and 4) remarks.

Dates: Created: 1872-1957

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Executive Appointees Logs

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Identifier: 001-02-101
Scope and Contents This series consists of logs indicating the names and other pertinent data concerning individuals appointed by the Governor to positions on boards, commissions and other bodies created both by Executive Order and constitutional or statutory fiat. The contents and format vary considerably from volume to volume. Unit 2 is a box which contains a log only for boards established by Executive Order and is much more informal in format. A copy of each Executive Order is included with key words...
Dates: Created: 1952-1982

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Executive Appointees Recommendations Files

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Identifier: 001-02-093
Scope and Contents This series contains documentation related to the selection and appointment of members to various executive boards, commissions, and committees. Most documentation consists of letters of recommendation to the Governor from the general public, government officials and the Governor's political supporters. Also included are lists of prospective appointees compiled by the office staff and intra-office memoranda relating to the selecting and appointing of candidates. Some letters, memoranda...
Dates: Created: 1971-2003, 2011-2018

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Inferior Court Justices Commission Books

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Identifier: 001-02-035-4
Scope and Contents

The Governor of the state was empowered by the Constitution of 1789 to grant commissions to military and civil officers. These commissions were filed by the Office of the Secretary of State. This series includes: (1) name of person commissioned, (2) date of commission, and (3) county.

Dates: Created: 1799-1869

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Official Oath Books

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Identifier: 001-02-014
Scope and Contents

This series consists of volumes recording the official oaths to appointed executive officials and elected state officials. Each oath includes the official's name, office, effective date of appointment, term of office and the signatures of the official and the Governor.

Dates: Created: 1834-2019

Governor - Research Section - Research Report Files

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Identifier: 001-21-127
Scope and Contents This series consists of the working papers of the Research Section of the Executive Staff Division of the Governor's Office. Because of its responsibility to respond to requests for specific information by officials of the Executive Department, the Research Section maintained these files. The documents come from a variety of sources with input from: 1) governmental agencies of the state, county and federal levels; 2) the legislature; 3) citizens, including professional associations; 4) the...
Dates: Created: 1975-1999

Governor - Special Affairs Office - Intern Program Annual Reports

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Identifier: 001-09-114
Scope and Contents The intern program originated in the early 1960's. The purpose of the program is to provide undergrad and graduate students, attending colleges and universities throughout the United States and especially in Georgia, the opportunity to become actively involved in the state government of Georgia by working in state agencies and simultaneously receiving scholastic credit at the college or university they attend for participating in this internship. The annual reports include chapters on (1)...
Dates: Created: 1974-1974

Governor - Special Affairs Office - Intern Study Reports

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Identifier: 001-09-095
Scope and Contents This series consists of study reports undertaken by participants in the Governor's Intern Program. Interns, usually college students, were assigned during one academic quarter to a State or local governmental agency in order to work and to learn about government. Interns were required to study and report on some aspect of the host agency's operation or area of responsibility. In some instances the interns made a study of some problem faced by the citizens that the host agency was...
Dates: Created: 1966-1997

Governor - State Budget Bureau - Budget Reports and Other Publications

 Series
Identifier: 001-06-044
Scope and Contents

Many of the publications in this series are closely related to and preceded those to be found in RG 93, Office of Planning and Budget. Included are budget reports and miscellaneous publications dealing with budgetary and accounting subjects.

Dates: Created: 1931-1965

Governor - State Budget Bureau - Budget Requests for All Agencies

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Identifier: 001-06-142
Scope and Contents The State Budget Bureau was established by law in 1931 and consisted of the governor, the state auditor, and the attorney general. This series contains early budget requests made by all state agencies to the budget bureau. Earlier records includes a cover letter to the governor enclosing an estimated budget for the coming fiscal year and analysis of expenditures for the past 5 year and 10 year periods. Later records are bound and generally include a spreadsheet of all agencies' requests,...
Dates: Created: 1932-1935

Governor - State Photographer - Governor's Photographs and Negatives

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Identifier: 001-18-092
Scope and Contents This series consists of negatives and photographs taken by the Governor's Photographer, a position within the Governor's Office. Subjects include the governor 1) signing legislation; 2) swearing in officials; 3) shown with visiting groups in the Capitol or on the Capitol grounds; 4) delivering messages to the General Assembly; 5) on official trips outside the Capitol; 6) with the First Lady at the Governor's Mansion; and 6) posing with individuals. The series consists mostly of negatives...
Dates: Created: 1946-2003