140th Georgia General Assembly

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140th Georgia General Assembly
←139th →
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Overview
Legislative bodyGeorgia General Assembly
Meeting placeGeorgia State Capitol
Senate
Members56
President of the SenateZell Miller (D)
Party controlDemocratic Party
House of Representatives
Members180
Speaker of the HouseTom Murphy (D)
Party controlDemocratic Party

The 140th Georgia General Assembly succeeded the 139th and served as the precedent for the 141st General Assembly in 1991. The 140th General Assembly of the U.S. state of Georgia convened its first session on January 9, 1989, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta.

Party standings[]

Senate[]

Affiliation Members
  Republican Party 11
  Democratic Party 45
  Other party* 0
 Total 56

House of Representatives[]

Affiliation Members
  Republican Party 36
  Democratic Party 144
  Other party* 0
 Total 180

*Active political parties in Georgia are not limited to the Democratic and Republican parties. Libertarians, and occasionally others, run candidates in elections. However, for the 1989-90 session of the General Assembly, only the two major parties were successful in electing legislators to office.

Officers[]

Terms of the Georgia General Assembly
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Senate[]

Presiding Officer[]

Position Name District Party

President

Zell Miller n/a Democratic
President Pro Tempore Joseph E. Kennedy 04 Democratic

Majority leadership[]

Position Name District
Senate Majority Leader 22
Majority Caucus Chairman 27
Majority Whip 43

Minority leadership[]

Position Name District
Senate Minority Leader 09
Minority Caucus Chairman James W. (Jim) Tysinger 41
Minority Whip 56

House of Representatives[]

Presiding Officer[]

Position Name District Party
Speaker of the House Thomas B. Murphy 18 Democratic
Speaker Pro Tempore Jack Connell 87 Democratic

Majority leadership[]

Position Name District
House Majority Leader Larry Walker 115
Majority Whip Denmark Groover 99
Majority Caucus Chairman Bill Lee 72
Majority Caucus Secretary Ward Edwards 112

Minority leadership[]

Position Name District
House Minority Leader Johnny Isakson 21-2
Minority Whip 20-3
Minority Caucus Chairman Dorothy Felton 22
Minority Caucus Vice Chairman 45
Minority Caucus Secretary 126

Members of the State Senate[]

District Senator Party Residence
1 J. Tom Coleman Democratic Savannah
2 Democratic Savannah
3 Democratic Brunswick
4 Joseph E. Kennedy Democratic Claxton
5 Republican Atlanta
6 Democratic Patterson
7 Democratic Nashville
8 Loyce W. Turner Democratic Valdosta
9 Republican Lilburn
10 Democratic Cairo
11 Democratic Blakely
12 Mark Taylor Democratic Albany
13 Rooney L. Bowen Democratic Cordele
14 Democratic Montezuma
15 Democratic Columbus
16 Ted J. Land Republican Columbus
17 Mac Collins Republican Jackson
18 Democratic Warner Robins
19 Democratic Douglas
20 Hugh M. Gillis, Sr. Democratic Soperton
21 Democratic Swainsboro
22 Democratic Augusta
23 Republican Augusta
24 Democratic Appling
25 Democratic Milledgeville
26 Democratic Macon
27 Democratic Thomaston
28 Republican Newnan
29 Democratic LaGrange
30 Democratic Carrollton
31 Nathan Dean Democratic Rockmart
32 Republican Smyrna
33 Roy E. Barnes Democratic Mableton
34 Democratic Fairburn
35 Arthur Langford, Jr. Democratic Atlanta
36 David Scott Democratic Atlanta
37 Republican Marietta
38 Horace E Tate Democratic Atlanta
39 Democratic Atlanta
40 Michael J. Egan Republican Atlanta
41 James W. (Jim) Tysinger Republican Atlanta
42 Pierre Howard Democratic Decatur
43 Democratic Decatur
44 Terrell Starr Democratic Forest Park
45 Democratic Conyers
46 Paul C. Broun Democratic Athens
47 C. Donald Johnson, Jr. Democratic Royston
48 Democratic Lawrenceville
49 J. Nathan Deal Democratic Gainesville
50 Democratic Cornelia
51 Max Brannon Democratic Calhoun
52 Democratic Rome
53 Waymond C. Huggins Democratic LaFayette
54 Democratic Chatsworth
55 Democratic Stone Mountain
56 Republican Atlanta

Members of the House of Representatives[]

District Representative Party Residence
1-1 Democratic Chickamauga
1-2 Democratic Rossville
2 McCracken Poston Democratic Ringgold
3 Democratic Eton
4-1 Carlton H. Colwell Democratic Blairsville
4-2 Democratic Hiawassee
5 Democratic Lyerly
6-1 Democratic Tunnel Hill
6-2 Democratic Dalton
7 James Beverly Langford Democratic Calhoun
8-1 Republican Canton
8-2 Democratic Canton
9-1 E. Wycliffe ("Wyc") Orr Democratic Gainesville
9-2 Democratic Gainesville
9-3 Democratic Chestnut Mountain
10 Democratic Cumming
11-1 Democratic Clarkesville
11-2 Democratic Toccoa
12 Democratic Commerce
13-1 Democratic Danielsville
13-2 Democratic Winterville
14 Democratic Elberton
15-1 E.M. (Buddy) Childers Democratic Rome
15-2 Democratic Silver Creek
16 Democratic Rome
17 Democratic Rockmart
18 Thomas B. Murphy Democratic Bremen
19 Democratic Cartersville
20-1 Republican Marietta
20-2 Republican Powder Springs
20-3 Republican Acworth
20-4 Steve Thompson Democratic Powder Springs
20-5 Earl Ehrhart Republican Powder Springs
21-1 Republican Smyrna
21-2 Johnny Isakson Republican Marietta
21-3 Republican Smyrna
21-4 Republican Marietta
21-5 Republican Marietta
22 Dorothy Felton Republican Atlanta
23 Republican Roswell
24 Republican Atlanta
25 Republican Atlanta
26 Jim Martin Democratic Atlanta
27 Dick Lane Democratic East Point
28 Bob Holmes Democratic Atlanta
29 Democratic Atlanta
30 Nan Orrock Democratic Atlanta
31 Mable Thomas Democratic Atlanta
32 Democratic Palmetto
33 Democratic Atlanta
34 Tyrone Brooks Democratic Atlanta
35 J.E. (Billy) McKinney Democratic Atlanta
36 Democratic Hapeville
37 Georganna T. Sinkfield Democratic Atlanta
38 Democratic Atlanta
39 Ralph David Abernathy III Democratic Atlanta
40 Cynthia Ann McKinney Democratic Atlanta
41 Democratic Dallas
42 Democratic Douglasville
43 Republican Peachtree City
44 John Linder Republican Dunwoody
45 Republican Atlanta
46 Democratic Atlanta
47 Chesley V. Morton Republican Tucker
48 Republican Atlanta
49 Republican Stone Mountain
50 Democratic Decatur
51 Thurbert E. Baker Democratic Decatur
52 Democratic Decatur
53 Mary Margaret Oliver Democratic Decatur
54 Juanita Terry Williams Democratic Atlanta
55 Democratic Atlanta
56 Democratic Atlanta
57-1 Democratic Conyers
57-2 Democratic Decatur
57-3 Dean Alford Democratic Lithonia
58 Republican Clarkston
59 Republican Lilburn
60 Republican Buford
61 Republican Lawrenceville
62 Republican Lilburn
63 Republican Norcross
64 Democratic Winder
65 Democratic Monroe
66 Democratic Watkinsville
67 Michael L. Thurmond Democratic Athens
68 Democratic Athens
69 Democratic Temple
70 Democratic Carrollton
71 Republican Newnan
72-1 Bill Lee Democratic Forest Park
72-2 Democratic Jonesboro
72-3 Democratic Jonesboro
72-4 Republican Jonesboro
72-5 Frank I. Bailey, Jr. Democratic Riverdale
73 Democratic McDonough
74 Democratic Covington
75 John P. Yates Republican Griffin
76 Democratic Griffin
77 Democratic Hogansville
78 Democratic Jackson
79 Democratic Thomaston
80 Democratic Forsyth
81 Democratic LaGrange
82 Democratic Warrenton
83 William S. "Bill" Jackson Democratic Martinez
84 Democratic Thomson
85 Charles W. Walker Democratic Augusta
86 Democratic Augusta
87 Jack Connell Democratic Augusta
88 Democratic Augusta
89 Don Cheeks Democrat Augusta
90 Republican Augusta
91 Democratic Manchester
92 Calvin Smyre Democratic Columbus
93 Democratic Hamilton
94 Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. Democratic Columbus
95 Thomas B. Buck Democratic Columbus
96 Democratic Columbus
97 Robert H. Steele Republican Columbus
98 Democratic Fort Valley
99 Denmark Groover, Jr. Democratic Macon
100 Democratic Macon
101 Democratic Macon
102 David E. Lucas Democratic Macon
103 Democratic Macon
104 Democratic Gordon
105 Bobby Eugene Parham Democratic Milledgeville
106 Democratic White Plains
107 Jimmy Lord Democratic Sandersville
108 Democratic Louisville
109 Larry J. "Butch" Parrish Democratic Swainsboro
110 John F. Godbee Democratic Brooklet
111 Bob Lane Democratic Statesboro
112 Ward Edwards Democratic Butler
113 Republican Warner Robins
114 Democratic Warner Robins
115 Larry Walker Democratic Perry
116 George Hooks Democratic Americus
117 Newt Hudson Democratic Rochelle
118 Terry L. Coleman Democratic Eastman
119 DuBose Porter Democratic Dublin
120 Democratic Vidalia
121 Democratic Glennville
122 Democratic Savannah
123 Democratic Savannah
124 DeWayne Hamilton Democratic Savannah
125 Jack Kingston Republican Savannah
126 Republican Savannah
127 Democratic Savannah
128 Sonny Dixon Democratic Garden City
129 Democratic Springfield
130 Gerald E. Greene Democratic Cuthbert
131 Bob Hanner Democratic Dawson
132 Democratic Albany
133 Democratic Albany
134 Democratic Albany
135 Democratic Cordele
136 Democratic Ashburn
137 Democratic Fitzgerald
138 Democratic Tifton
139 Democratic Nicholls
140 Democratic Blakely
141 Democratic Bainbridge
142 Democratic Cairo
143 Theo Titus, III Republican Thomasville
144 Democratic Camilla
145 Democratic Moultrie
146 Democratic Nashville
147 Henry L. Reaves Democratic Quitman
148 Democratic Valdosta
149 Robert L. Patten Democratic Lakeland
150 Tom Crosby, Jr. Democratic Waycross
151 Harry D. Dixon Democratic Waycross
152 Democratic Alma
153-1 Lunsford Moody Democratic Baxley
153-2 Democratic Hazlehurst
154 Democratic Hinesville
155 Democratic Brunswick
156 Republican Brunswick

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