Herndon, Jane Walker

Scope and Contents of the Series Eurith Dickinson "Ed" Rivers served as Georgia governor from 1937 to 1941. He also served in the state House of Representatives and was Speaker of the House. The interviews in this series were conducted by Jane W. Herndon and used as material for her doctoral dissertation Eurith Dickinson Rivers: A Political Biography at the University of Georgia in the early 1970s. The dissertation covered E. D. Rivers' political life and the impact of his...

Scope and Contents of the Series The interviews in this series were, with a few exceptions, initiated by the Georgia Government Documentation Project and are with a wide range of prominent public figures. Narrators include both elected officials and individuals who never held office. Among the narrators interviewed are former U.S. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, U.S. Senator Paul D. Coverdell, Speaker of the Georgia House Tom Murphy, and former US Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. Most of the interviews are in a life...