Greer, John, 1909-1994
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1909 - 1994
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
John Greer oral history interview, May 6, 1987
Item — Othertype Oral History: Series Series A: ; Series Series B:; Series I; Series II; Series III; Series IV
Identifier: GreerJ_19870506_P1987-07
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Personal background; early political interest; education; memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Eugene Talmadge as an opponent of Roosevelt; Talmadge campaign tactics; Governor E. D. Rivers; the New Deal; the General Assembly during the Rivers administration; first political campaign; problems with road paving; Jim Gillis; politics in the highway department; committee assignments; the Secret Ballot bill; the Ku Klux Klan in politics; the...
Dates:
May 6, 1987
John Greer oral history interview, May 27, 1987
Item — Othertype Oral History: Series Series A: ; Series Series B:; Series I; Series II; Series III; Series IV
Identifier: GreerJ_19870527_P1987-07
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Jim Gillis and the Georgia highway department paving in Lanier County; "two mile" Jim Gillis; the power of the highway department; amending the highway department; roads; Cocking affair; Talmadge's influence; Greer as an anti‑Talmadge candidate; E.D. Rivers‑Eugene Talmadge rivalry; Talmadge and the University of Georgia; the Georgia Board of Regents; George Hamilton and Talmadge; the power of the state treasurer; the rivalry between...
Dates:
May 27, 1987
John Greer oral history interview, June 4, 1987
Item — Othertype Oral History: Series Series A: ; Series Series B:; Series I; Series II; Series III; Series IV
Identifier: GreerJ_19870604_P1987-07
Scope and Contents
Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Efforts to insure secret ballot in 1949; political factions within individual counties; "Talmadge crowd"; leaders of the anti‑Talmadge crowd; Bernard "Buckshot" Nightingale; Charles Gowan's 1954 gubernatorial campaign ; Tom Linder; 1954 governor's race; Marvin Griffin; county unit campaigning; 1962 governor's race; Carl Sanders as an anti‑Talmadge man; New Deal's effects on political factionalism; Warm Springs, Georgia; FDR; state Democratic...
Dates:
June 4, 1987
John Greer papers
Collection
Identifier: P1987-07M
Abstract:
John Greer was a Georgia politician. Greer's career in state politics began in 1939 when he became Clerk of the Georgia House of Representatives. Greer served a number of years as State Representative (1945-1954 from rural Lanier county, and 1970-1989 from urban Fulton county) and as State Senator. As a legislator, he served on the MARTA Overview Committee. Two 1940s laws which "unmasked" the Ku Klux Klan and provided for statewide secret ballot elections are among Greer's legislative...
Dates:
1948-1986
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Fulton County (Ga.) 1
- Lanier County (Ga.) 1
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- Politicians 1
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