# 127th General Assembly of the State of Georgia

The 127th Georgia General Assembly convened its first session on January 14, 1963, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. The 128th Georgia General Assembly succeeded the 126th and served as the precedent for the 128th in 1965.
Jimmy Carter was elected to serve his first of two terms in the Georgia State Senate this session.

## Members of the State Senate

| District | Senator | Party | Residence |
| 1 | Frank O. Downing | Democratic | Savannah |
| 2 | William Searcey | Democratic | Savannah |
| 3 | Joseph Tribble | Republican | Savannah |
| 4 | Clinton Oliver | Democratic | Glenville |
| 5 | John M. Gayner, III | Democratic | Brunswick |
| 6 | William Zorn | Democratic | Jesup |
| 7 | Talmadge McKinnon | Democratic | Willacoochee |
| 8 | Robert Rowan | Democratic | Enigma |
| 9 | Ford Spinks | Democratic | Tifton |
| 10 | Glenn Pelham | Democratic | Cairo |
| 11 | Julian Webb | Democratic | Donalsonville |
| 12 | Al Holloway | Democratic | Albany |
| 13 | Martin Young | Democratic | Rebecca |
| 14 | Jimmy Carter | Democratic | Plains |
| 15 | A. Perry Gordy | Republican | Columbus |
| 16 | Harry Jackson | Republican | Columbus |
| 17 | Garland Byrd | Democratic | Reynolds |
| 18 | Stanley Smith | Democratic | Perry |
| 19 | Roy Noble | Democratic | Vienna |
| 20 | Hugh Gillis | Democratic | Soperton |
| 21 | Milton Carlton | Democratic | Swainsboro |
| 22 | J. B. Fuqua | Democratic | Augusta |
| 23 | Milford Scott | Democratic | Augusta |
| 24 | Wyck Knox | Independent | Thomson |
| 25 | Culver Kidd Jr. | Democratic | Milledgeville |
| 26 | William Hunt | Democratic | Macon |
| 27 | Taylor Phillips | Democratic | Macon |
| 28 | Robert H. Smalley Jr. | Democratic | Griffin |
| 29 | Roland Heard | Democratic | West Point |
| 30 | Lamar Plunkett | Democratic | Bowdon |
| 31 | Albert F. Moore | Democratic | Cedartown |
| 32 | Edward Kendrick | Democratic | Marietta |
| 33 | Kyle Yancey | Democratic | Austell |
| 34 | Charlie Brown | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 35 | Frank E. Coggin | Democratic | Hapeville |
| 36 | Joe Salome | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 37 | James Wesberry | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 38 | Leroy Johnson | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 39 | Oby Brewer | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 40 | Dan MacIntyre | Republican | Atlanta |
| 41 | McKinley Conway | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 42 | Ben F. Johnson | Democratic | Atlanta |
| 43 | William McWhorter | Democratic | Decatur |
| 44 | Thomas Ellis | Democratic | McDonough |
| 45 | Brooks Pennington | Democratic | Madison |
| 46 | Paul C. Broun Sr. | Democratic | Athens |
| 47 | Robert Lee | Democratic | Hartwell |
| 48 | Harold Harrison | Democratic | Bethlehem |
| 49 | Erwin Owens | Democratic | Dahlonega |
| 50 | Zell Miller | Democratic | Young Harris |
| 51 | Jack Fincher | Democratic | Canton |
| 52 | James Battle Hall | Democratic | Rome |
| 53 | Joseph Loggins | Democratic | Summerville |
| 54 | Charles Pannell (res.) | Democratic | Chatsworth |
| 54 | Reese Thomas | Republican | Dalton |

## Members of the House

| County | Representative | Party |
| Appling | Curtis Herndon | Democratic |
| Atkinson | Waldo Henderson | Democratic |
| Bacon | Hugh Deen | Democratic |
| Baker | J. R. Rhodes Jr. | Democratic |
| Baldwin | John Floyd Harrington | Democratic |
| Baldwin | Phillip Chandler | Democratic |
| Banks | John Simmons | Democratic |
| Barrow | James Paris | Democratic |
| Bartow | William Greene | Democratic |
| Bartow | J.R. Cullens | Democratic |
| Ben Hill | Arthur Dorminy | Democratic |
| Berrien | William Knight | Democratic |
| Bibb | Denmark Groover Jr. | Democratic |
| Bibb | Michael House | Democratic |
| Bibb | William Laite | Democratic |
| Bleckley | James Mullis | Democratic |
| Brantley | Hoke Wilson | Democratic |
| Brooks | Henry Reaves | Democratic |
| Bryan | Jack Shuman | Democratic |
| Bulloch | W. Jones Lane | Democratic |
| Bulloch | Paul Nessmith | Democratic |
| Burke | Memory Tucker | Democratic |
| Butts | Bailey Woodward | Democratic |
| Calhoun | William Jordan | Democratic |
| Camden | Nolan Wells | Democratic |
| Camden | Charles Smith | Democratic |
| Candler | Hines Brantley | Democratic |
| Carroll | Joseph Elvin | Democratic |
| Carroll | Hayne Waldrop (res.) | Democratic |
| Carroll | William Wiggins | Democratic |
| Catoosa | Joe Tucker | Democratic |
| Charlton | Henry Rodgers | Democratic |
| Chatham | Willis Richardson | Democratic |
| Chatham | Arthur Funk | Democratic |
| Chatham | Bart Shea | Democratic |
| Chattahoochee | Joseph King (dcd.) | Democratic |
| Chattahoochee | Floyd Hudgins | Democratic |
| Chattooga | James Floyd | Democratic |
| Cherokee | Grady Coker | Democratic |
| Cherokee | Marion Pope | Democratic |
| Clarke | Robert Matthews | Democratic |
| Clarke | William Bedgood | Democratic |
| Clay | Henry McKemie | Democratic |
| Clayton | Edgar Blalock | Democratic |
| Clayton | Bill Lee | Democratic |
| Clinch | Grover Lee | Democratic |
| Cobb | Elmer Teague | Democratic |
| Cobb | Robert Flournoy | Democratic |
| Cobb | Joe Wilson | Democratic |
| Coffee | George Williams | Democratic |
| Coffee | Henry Milhollin | Democratic |
| Colquitt | Dorsey Matthews | Democratic |
| Colquitt | David Newton | Democratic |
| Columbia | G.S. Phillips | Democratic |
| Cook | Wilson Wilkes | Democratic |
| Coweta | Henry Payton | Democratic |
| Coweta | D.B. Blalock | Democratic |
| Crawford | John Scarborough Jr. | Democratic |
| Crisp | Howard H. Rainey | Democratic |
| Dade | Maddox Hale | Democratic |
| Dawson | Ralph W. Bowen | Democratic |
| Decatur | J. Willis Conger | Democratic |
| Decatur | Robert Griffin | Democratic |
| DeKalb | James MacKay | Democratic |
| DeKalb | Guy Rutland | Democratic |
| DeKalb | J. Robin Harris | Democratic |
| Dodge | Williamson Stuckey | Democratic |
| Dooly | Thomas I. Sangster | Democratic |
| Dougherty | George Busbee | Democratic |
| Dougherty | Colquitt Odom | Democratic |
| Dougherty | William Lee | Democratic |
| Douglas | Alpha Fowler | Democratic |
| Early | Leon Baughman | Democratic |
| Echols | Louis Raulerson | Democratic |
| Effingham | B. Frank Arnsdorff | Democratic |
| Elbert | A.S. Johnson | Democratic |
| Emanuel | Geo Smith | Democratic |
| Evans | G. Ed Perry | Democratic |
| Fannin | A.C. Duncan | Republican |
| Fayette | A. Hewlette Herrel | Democratic |
| Floyd | Sidney Lowrey | Democratic |
| Floyd | J.E. Jordan | Democratic |
| Forsyth | A.C. Smith | Democratic |
| Franklin | C. Patrick Milford | Democratic |
| Fulton | Wilson Brooks | Democratic |
| Fulton | Jack Etheridge | Democratic |
| Fulton | Ralph McClelland | Democratic |
| Gilmer | B.C. Logan | Republican |
| Glascock | W.G. Todd | Democratic |
| Glynn | William R. Killian | Democratic |
| Glynn | Joe Isenberg | Democratic |
| Gordon | Troy Causby | Democratic |
| Grady | George T. Smith | Democratic |
| Greene | Allen P. Roper | Democratic |
| Gwinnett | Handsell Morgan | Democratic |
| Habersham | Richard Russel Smith | Democratic |
| Hall | W.M. Williams | Democratic |
| Hall | Howard Overby | Democratic |
| Hancock | Marvin E. Moate | Democratic |
| Haralson | Tom Murphy | Democratic |
| Harris | William Steis | Democratic |
| Hart | M. Parks Brown | Democratic |
| Heard | Truitt Davis | Democratic |
| Henry | Edward McGarity (res.) | Democratic |
| Henry | Ray Tucker | Democratic |
| Houston | David Peterson | Democratic |
| Houston | Paul Stalnaker | Democratic |
| Irwin | Harry Mixon | Democratic |
| Jackson | Mac Barber | Democratic |
| Jasper | Roy R. Kelly | Democratic |
| Jeff Davis | James L. Conner | Democratic |
| Jefferson | Roy McCracken | Democratic |
| Jenkins | A. Sid Newton | Democratic |
| Johnson | Emory Rowland | Democratic |
| Jones | Corbin Roberts | Democratic |
| Lamar | Haygood Keadle | Democratic |
| Lanier | Robert Pafford | Democratic |
| Laurens | D.W. Knight | Democratic |
| Laurens | WM. Malcolm Towson | Democratic |
| Lee | H. Goodwin Hall | Democratic |
| Liberty | Charles M. Jones | Democratic |
| Lincoln | Henry F. Partridge | Democratic |
| Long | J. Tyron Shaw | Democratic |
| Lowndes | W.J. Gibbons | Democratic |
| Lowndes | Fred H. Walker | Democratic |
| Lumpkin | Fred Jones Jr. | Democratic |
| Macon | J. Paul Sinclair | Democratic |
| Madison | Edwin Poss | Democratic |
| Marion | Eldridge W. Perry | Democratic |
| McDuffie | Leonard Lokey | Democratic |
| McIntosh | Daniel H. White | Democratic |
| Meriwether | Render Hill | Democratic |
| Miller | Buck Tabb | Democratic |
| Mitchell | Frank Twitty | Democratic |
| Monroe | Harold G. Clarke | Democratic |
| Montgomery | Joe Underwood | Democratic |
| Morgan | E. Roy Lambert | Democratic |
| Murray | Gerald Leonard | Democratic |
| Muscogee | Harry Dicus | Democratic |
| Muscogee | Milton Jones | Democratic |
| Muscogee | Mac Pickard | Democratic |
| Newton | William Ballard | Democratic |
| Newton | Jack H. Morgan | Democratic |
| Oconee | Hubert Wells | Democratic |
| Oglethorpe | George B. Brooks | Democratic |
| Paulding | George Bagby | Democratic |
| Peach | D. Warner Wells | Democratic |
| Pickens | Will Poole | Democratic |
| Pierce | Francis Houston | Democratic |
| Pike | Caleb Watson | Democratic |
| Polk | John Harvey Moore | Democratic |
| Polk | Nathan Dean | Democratic |
| Pulaski | John Anderson Jr. | Democratic |
| Putnam | Nevils Horton Jr. | Democratic |
| Quitman | Joe Hurst | Democratic |
| Rabun | Knox Bynum | Democratic |
| Randolph | A'Delbert Bowen | Democratic |
| Richmond | William Fleming | Democratic |
| Richmond | James Hull Jr | Democratic |
| Richmond | John Chapman Bell | Democratic |
| Rockdale | Clarence R. Vaughn Jr. | Democratic |
| Schley | Martin Eugene DeVane | Democratic |
| Screven | Henry Walstein Parker | Democratic |
| Seminole | J.O. Brackin | Democratic |
| Spalding | Arthur Key Bolton | Democratic |
| Spalding | Quimby Melton Jr. | Democratic |
| Stephens | James Allen Andrews | Democratic |
| Stewart | Sam S. Singer | Democratic |
| Sumter | William Blair | Democratic |
| Sumter | John William Sewell | Democratic |
| Sumter | Jesse Watts | Democratic |
| Taliferro | Wales Flynt | Democratic |
| Tatnall | Hogan Kirkland | Democratic |
| Taylor | Ralph Underwood | Democratic |
| Telfair | Edgar Smith Jr | Democratic |
| Terrell | Ed Fulford | Democratic |
| Thomas | James Keyton | Democratic |
| Thomas | Henry Russell Jr | Democratic |
| Tift | W. Frank Branch | Democratic |
| Tift | Henry Banks Allen | Democratic |
| Toombs | Ross Bowen | Democratic |
| Towns | John Acree | Democratic |
| Treutlen | J. Wyman Fowler | Democratic |
| Troup | James Crawford Ware | Democratic |
| Troup | Harry Spikes | Democratic |
| Turner | Roy Coker | Democratic |
| Twiggs | Homer Chance | Democratic |
| Twiggs | James Beck | Democratic |
| Union | William Meeks Jr | Democratic |
| Upson | Johnnie L. Caldwell | Democratic |
| Walker | William Shaw Abney | Democratic |
| Walker | Wayne Snow Jr. | Democratic |
| Walton | John Byrd | Democratic |
| Ware | William Ponsell | Democratic |
| Ware | Harry D. Dixon | Democratic |
| Ware | Bobby Ware Johnson | Democratic |
| Washington | Thomas Carr | Democratic |
| Wayne | James E. Warren | Democratic |
| Webster | James Black | Democratic |
| Wheeler | Mackie Simpson | Democratic |
| White | Thomas McDonald Jr. | Democratic |
| Whitfield | Virgil Smith | Democratic |
| Whitfield | Thomas Marvin Mitchell | Democratic |
| Wilcox | Cecil Crummey (dcd.) | Democratic |
| Wilcox | Joe Dennard | Democratic |
| Wilkes | William Lindsey (dcd.) | Democratic |
| Wilkes | John G. Wright | Democratic |
| Wilkinson | E. Brooks Lewis | Democratic |
| Worth | David Campbell Jones | Democratic |