Secretary of State of Georgia

The secretary of state of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records and people.

Secretary of State Karen Handel announced her resignation in January 2010, and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed Brian Kemp to replace her.^[1]

List of Secretaries of State of Georgia

#	Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
1^[2]	John Milton		1777	1799
2	Horatio Marbury		1799	1811
3	Abner Hammond		1811	1823
4	Everard Hamilton		1823	1833
5	William A. Tennille		1833	1843
6	Nathan Crawford Barnett		1843	1849
7	George Washington Harrison		1849	1851
8	Nathan Crawford Barnett		1851	1853
9	Elihu P. Watkins		1853	1861
10	Nathan Crawford Barnett		1861	1868
11	David G. Cotting	Republican	1868	1873
12	Nathan Crawford Barnett	Democrat ^[4]	1873	1890 ^a
13	Philip Cook, Sr.	Democrat	1890	1894 ^a
14	Allen D. Candler	Democrat	1894	1898
15	William C. Clifton		1898	1898
16	Philip Cook, Jr.	Democrat	1898	1918 ^a
17	Henry Bascomb Strange		1918	1919
18	Samuel Guyton McLendon		1919	1928 ^a
19	George Henry Carswell	Democrat	1928	1931
20	John Bryan Wilson	Democrat	1931	1946 ^a
21	Benjamin Wynn “Ben” Fortson, Jr.	Democrat	1946	1979 ^a
22	David Bryan Poythress	Democrat	1979	1983
23	Joseph Maxwell “Max” Cleland	Democrat	1983	1996
24	Lewis A. Massey	Democrat	1996	1999
25	Lera Catharine “Cathy” Cox	Democrat	1999	2007
26	Karen C. Handel	Republican	2007	2010
27	Brian Kemp	Republican	2010	incumbent

(a) Died in Office

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