Ellis Gibbs Arnall (March 20, 1907 - December 13, 1992) was an American politician, a liberal Democrat who served as the 69th Governor of the US state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947.
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Education
Born in Newnan, Georgia, he studied at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, then attended and graduated from the University of the South, and, later, from the University of Georgia School of Law. He accepted law practice in 1931. While attending Mercer University, Arnall was initiated into the Order of Alpha Kappa.
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Initial career
In 1932, Coweta County voters voted Arnall to the Georgia House of Representatives. Arnall was elected 'Pro Tempore Speaker', the second highest ranking officer in Georgia House. Governor Eurith D. Rivers pointed Arnall, then thirty-one, to the vacant position of the state attorney general's office.
Governor
The actions carried out by Governor Eugene Talmadge have caused state colleges to lose accreditation. Arnall toppled Talmadge in 1942 primary, 174,757 (57.7 percent) to 128,394 (42.4 percent). Without Republican opposition, Arnall later became the youngest governor who later served in the United States.
Arnall obtained a revocation of voting taxes, the ratification of 1945 of the new state constitution, and the system of state employees' merit. He also retired Georgia's state debt. When young men were recruited into armed forces during World War II, Arnall argued that young adults mature enough to fight should be able to choose their country's leadership. He managed to lower the voting age to eighteen over two decades before the 26th Amendment of the United States Constitution applies the change nationally. Georgia became the first state to give franchises to 18-year-olds. Arnall also removed the prison system under the governor's control. He set up a correction board to oversee state prisons and parole pardons and parole to handle the request. He got rid of the University of Georgia from political intrigue, and he led an effort to prevent a governor from using dictatorial powers, as alleged by the opponents of Governor Eugene Talmadge, has occurred during the reign. Reform Arnall won his attention from the national press.
Reselection attempt
But his career declined as he could not persuade the legislature to allow him to seek re-election. Arnall stood behind the efforts of Henry A. Wallace to remain Vice President in 1944, when the former US Agriculture Minister was replaced by US Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Arnall embraced the United States Supreme Court decision banning the all-white Democratic party in the case of Smith v. Allwright and thus opens the main Democratic elections that are important to African Americans. This move particularly angered Talmadge and his supporters, who used the issue to label Arnall a "racist traitor."
Eugene Talmadge was elected governor again in 1946 to James V. Carmichael (backed by Arnall) and former governor Eurith D. Rivers. However, he died a month before he was scheduled to rule in January 1947. The state legislature then chose Talmadge's son, Herman Talmadge, as governor. Arnall refused to resign from the post during the controversy, and younger Talmadge eventually locked Arnall from his office in the state capitol. Arnall immediately backed up Melvin E. Thompson's unsuccessful claim to the office.
Later career
After leaving the office, Arnall worked as a lawyer and businessman in Atlanta, founded Arnall Golden & amp; Gregory (now Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), who continues to be one of the leading law firms in Atlanta. For a time one of his legal partners later became US Representative Elliott Levitas. Arnall served in the Truman administration for a short time as Director of the Office of Price Stabilization. Truman offered Arnall a Public Defender position but he refused to return to private practice.
election 1966
Arnall's last campaign was for governors in 1966. His main opponent for the nomination was Lester Maddox, an Atlanta businessman who raised the ax handle as a symbol of his resistance to desegregation. Maddox shoots Arnall as "the ancestor of racial integration of force... a candidate who will never raise his voice or finger - let alone handle the ax - to protect Georgian freedom." Arnall practically ignored Maddox and concentrated fire on Republican Howard Callaway, where Arnall had compiled a file that he said would guarantee Republican defeat in an election. Arnall won a number of votes in the primary but was denied the necessary majority, due to support for future US President Jimmy Carter, then an obscure state senator from Plains, Georgia. Arnall barely campaigned for runoff, and the result was a startling victory for Maddox. After his own elimination, Carter refused to support Arnall, but he officially endorsed Maddox in an election against Callaway.
Maddox beat Arnall in runoff, 443,055 to 373,004. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., denounced what he called "rusting cancer in Georgian political bodies" Georgia is a sick country produced by sick ailing nation The election reveals that Georgia is very competitive with Mississippi for the bottom. " Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., of Atlanta, who once worked for the Arnall law firm, blamed Arnall's disappearance on "the combined power of ignorance, prejudice, reactionary and replica of many Republican voters," many of whom are believed to have voted for Maddox in Democratic runoff at the theory that Maddox would be a weaker opponent to Callaway than Arnall.
Arnall supporters who were amazed to announce the nominally written candidacy for elections, a move that impacted Callaway more than Maddox. In the election, Callaway finished in tabulation with a little plurality over Maddox. Arnall received over 52,000 ballots and led the field in one area, Liberty County in the southeastern part of the state. Under the applicable electoral rules, state legislatures are required to elect a governor of two candidates with the highest number of votes. With the Democrat-dominated parliament and despite the court's challenge, Maddox became governor in early 1967.
Death and inheritance
After the 1966 campaign, Arnall never again sought public posts. Harold Paulk Henderson published the 1991 biography, Political Change in Georgia: Ellis Arnall's Political Biography .
Arnall wrote the 1946 book, The Shore Dimly Seen (J. B. Lippincott & amp; Co.), about the politics and challenges of the South.
Arnall is an active Civitan.
Arnall was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in his native Newnan.
References
External links
- Obituary at The New York Times (December 15, 1992)
- Profile page for Ellis Gibbs Arnall on the National Governors Association website
- Ellis Arnall in Finding the Mausoleum
- Oral History (1985-1986), Georgia's Political Heritage Project, Dr. Mel Steely, Director; University of West Georgia [1]
- Marker of the history of Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall
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