April 25, 1734

1734 Though he was in America, James Oglethorpe won reelection to his Haslemere seat in the House of Commons --thanks to efforts on Oglethorpe’s behalf by the Speaker of the House.

April 25, 1893

1893 The Georgia Society of the Colonial Dames of America was organized in Savannah.

April 25, 1912

1912 Politician Iris Faircloth Blitch was born in Vidalia, Georgia. She attended the University of Georgia and South Georgia College before marrying in 1929. During the 1930s she and her husband ran successful businesses involving naval stores, pulpwood, and livestock. She served in the Georgia Senate (1946-47), Georgia House (1948-49), and again in the Senate (1952-1954). In the early 1950s, she also worked as secretary of the Georgia Democratic executive committee and was a Georgia delegate on the National Democratic Committee. In 1954, Blitch was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia’s Eight District, serving four consecutive terms. In 1956, she joined Georgia’s congressional delegation and legislators from other states in signing the "Southern Manifesto," pledging to work toward undoing the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. She also worked to protect the jute industry in her district from foreign competitors, and defended the use of the comic strip character Pogo in a government pamphlet for parents concerned with television viewing habits. Failing health prevented Blitch from runningn again in 1962; in 1964 she announced she was switching parties to support Barry Goldwater for president. She died in 1993.

April 25, 1996

1996 Gov. Zell Miller signed legislation declaring English to be the official language of Georgia.

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1773 Noted antebellum Georgia politician Peter Early was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. Accompanying his parents to Georgia in the early 1790s, Early became a lawyer in Oglethorpe County in … read more