Frustrated with the opposition to his Supreme Court-packing plan, which would have increased the number of justices so that he could appoint people more sympathetic to his policies, FDR campaigned against several conservative Democratic lawmakers, including Walter George of Georgia and Ellison Smith of South Carolina.

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The group of senators included McCain, Martinez, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Collins, Richard Burr of North Carolina, George Voinovich of Ohio, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, John Thune of South Dakota, Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Graham.

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In 1811, President Madison secretly dispatched a disgraced Georgia pol and land speculator named George Mathews to secure Florida for the U.S. After a year's boondoggling, Mathews and a force of nine irregulars talked the nine Spanish defenders of the island into ceding it to America, a meaningless swap that neither country recognized.

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"Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind, " says George Gray, a systems programming supervisor at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, who also writes a Univac newsletter.

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In childhood he was told by his father, Manuel, the story of the 20-year-old, dirt-poor farm boy named George Washington Perry who caught a 22.3 pound bass in Georgia in 1932, establishing the current record.

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And lastly, I asked Georgia Howe, an interior designer and co-founder of the furniture design and textile company Carolina George.

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