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Georgia General Assembly

A form of representative government has existed in Georgia since January 1751. Its modern embodiment, known as the Georgia General Assembly, is one of the largest state legislatures in the nation. The General Assembly consists of two chambers, the House of Representatives and the senate.

The General Assembly has operated continuously since 1777, when Georgia became one of the thirteen original states and revoked its status as a colony of Great Britain. Since the General Assembly is the legislative body for the state, the location of its meetings has moved along with each move of the state capital. In its earliest days the legislature met first in...

Jefferson Franklin Long (1836-1901)

Jefferson Franklin Long was Georgia's first African American congressman and the first Black member to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Long was born into...

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Digital Library of Georgia

The newly redesigned Digital Library of Georgia is now available online. The site connects users to half a million digital objects in more than 600 collections from over 130 institutions and 100 government agencie...

Lee County

Lee County, which spans 356 square miles, was created by an act of the state legislature on June 9, 1825, along with Carroll,...

Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)

Over the course of a long career, Erskine Caldwell wrote twelve books of nonfiction, twenty-five novels, and nearly 150 short stories. He was intent on depicting life among the lowly in Georgia and the rest of the South, and his concern for the le...