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Central Georgia is filled with manycolorful characters. We are well known for producing some of the most talented and creative people in the world. These featured articles highlight just a few of middle georgia's finest musicians, professional athletes, scholars, politicians and even an astronaut that have all left their footprints in the red clay of Middle Georgia. So without further ado, here are some feature articles about some of Middle Georgia's most wonderful people.
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 Sam Nunn represented Georgia for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate (1972-96). His passion for foreign policy and military affairs led him to concentrate on global issues, particularly issues concerning the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the world.
Samuel Augustus Nunn was born on September 8, 1938, and reared in the small town of Perry, in middle Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, and Emory Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1962. He served on active duty with the U.S. Coast Guard and for six years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve before entering politics. Nunn began his political career as a Democratic member of the Georgia General Assembly in 1968.
U.S. Senate Career Nunn ran for the U.S. Senate in 1972 and won. He was reelected three times, serving continuously from 1972 to 1996. During his long tenure there, Nunn was a member and chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He was a member of the intelligence and small business committees and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1987). His passion for foreign policy and military affairs led him to concentrate on global issues, particularly issues concerning the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the world. He attributes his lifelong interest in military and global affairs to his experience working for the House Armed Services Committee when he was just out of law school, to the impact of Robins Air Force Base on the state's economy, and to Georgia's (and the South's) promilitary climate in general. |
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Lena Horne, an acclaimed entertainer and civil rights activist, poses for a 1943 MGM publicity photograph. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Horne spent part of her childhood in both Fort Valley and Atlanta before beginning her career in New York at the age of sixteen. In 1984 she received the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.
Perhaps best known for her sultry rendition of the song "Stormy Weather," which she performed in the 1943 film by the same name, singer Lena Horne spent much of her childhood in Fort Valley and Atlanta. A recipient of several honors commemorating her contributions to the performing arts, including a 1984 Kennedy Center Honor, Horne has also spent much of her life advocating for civil rights. Lena Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Edna Scottron and Edwin "Teddy" Horne on June 30, 1917. Her parents separated when she was a child, and she lived with her paternal grandparents and uncle. Horne's grandmother Cora Calhoun Horne was well known in her community as an active supporter of many civil rights causes and took Horne with her to meetings of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Urban League, and Suffragette organizations. When Horne was about six years old, she joined her mother, a singer and dancer in various drama troupes, on tour. Over the next six years, they moved often, and while her mother performed or looked for work, Horne stayed with family friends, relatives, or residents of the houses in which she and her mother boarded. In her autobiography, Lena (1965), Horne recounts the happy times she spent with two Macon women who taught her about traditional southern cooking and told her Bible stories. |
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 Sonny Perdue was sworn in as Georgia's 81st Governor on January 13, 2003. Before his run for Governor, Perdue proudly served his local community, as well as Middle Georgia, his state, and the nation in a variety of roles. He has been a businessman, community leader, Sunday School teacher, State Senator, Majority Leader and President Pro Tempore of the Georgia State Senate, as well as an officer in the United States Air Force.
Sonny was born on December 20, 1946, in Perry, Georgia, to a lifelong farmer, and a classroom teacher. Perdue attended Warner Robins High School and earned a doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1971 from the University of Georgia. Prior to being admitted to veterinary school, he played football at the UGA as a walk on. While still in school he volunteered to serve his country in the United States Air Force where he honed his flying skills, by earning instrument, flight instructor, and multi-engine ratings. A licensed pilot for more than thirty years, Sonny has enjoyed traveling the state in his single-engine Bellanca Super Viking. Following his honorable discharge from the Air Force in 1974 with the rank of Captain and a brief tenure as a practicing veterinarian in Raleigh, North Carolina, Perdue returned to his native Georgia and became a successful small-business owner. He started two businesses from the ground up, concentrating in agribusiness and transportation. Today, those businesses have grown to include several locations across the Southeast.
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