Georgia History People

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  1. 3. The British founder and first leader of the Georgia colony.
  2. 4. The governor who created the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship.
  3. 7. The Atlanta-born leader of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
  4. 8. The leader who gave the "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the 1895 expo.
  5. 10. A civil rights leader, UN Ambassador, and mayor of Atlanta.
  6. 13. A powerful GA senator who helped bring military bases to the state.
  7. 14. A Jewish factory manager whose trial and lynching shocked the nation.
  8. 19. The Cherokee man who created a written alphabet for his people.
  9. 21. The first European explorer to lead an expedition through Georgia.
  10. 23. A GA governor involved in the "Three Governors" affair.
  11. 24. The Principal Chief of the Cherokee during the Trail of Tears.
  12. 25. The editor who promoted the idea of a modernized "New South."
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  1. 1. Known as the "Father of the Two-Ocean Navy" for his work in Congress.
  2. 2. An enslaved man who became Atlanta's first Black millionaire.
  3. 5. The Savannah native who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA.
  4. 6. The youngest Georgian signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  5. 9. Atlanta's first African American mayor.
  6. 11. The half-Creek woman who served as a vital translator for settlers.
  7. 12. A physician and one of the three GA signers of the Declaration.
  8. 15. The only Georgian to ever serve as President of the United States.
  9. 16. The Yamacraw Chief who befriended Oglethorpe and gave him land.
  10. 17. The inventor who created the cotton gin on a Georgia plantation.
  11. 18. One of three Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence.
  12. 20. The President who frequently visited Warm Springs for polio treatments.
  13. 22. A Revolutionary War heroine who famously captured British soldiers.