Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-01
HUGH NJ. DORSEY.
|NAUCURATED As
STATE: EXECUTIVE

son Dorsey took the oath of office to-
day as governor of Georgia.
The Inauguration was held in tn.
house of representatives in the pres
ence Of the house and senate in joint
session, presided over by President
sam L. Olive of the senate, and IN
the presence also of a large number
OF spectators who packed the gallery
and stood in thick fringe around
the hall.
At 11:45 O'Clock the house and SEN
ate assembled in joint session, and at
the same hour joint committee from.
the two bodies met the new governor
in the Kimball House and escorted him
to the governors office in the state
capitol, where Mr.. Dorsey Joined Gov
ernor Harris and proceeded to the
house of representative on the second
floor
Seats were reserved for them on
the speakers stand and grouped in
front of the stand we're the judges OF
the supreme court and the court of
appeals, new and retiring statehouse
officials, ex-governors and federal
Judges.
At 12 o'clock the gavel Of President
olive sounded throughout the hall,
and the hum of conversation ceased.
Rev. J. N. Scruggs, of HawkinsVille.
pronounced the invocation. President
Give then presented the new governor
t. the general assembly, and the sol
emn ceremony of administering the
oath" was performed by Chief Justice
3 &Nilliam H. Fish, of the supreme court
Governor Harris then turned back
to Secretary of State Phil Cook, from
whom he received ii, the great seal of
the state, and Secretary Cook placed
the seal in the hands of Governor Dor
sey, after which the new governor be,
gan his inaugural address.
At the close of the address there was
benediction by Rev. Charles 10.
Jones. pastor Of Trinity Methodist
church, of Atlanta, to which Governor
Dorsey belongs, and the exercises ad-
journed.
Governor Dorsey was born in 1877
in Fayette county His father, the
late Judge Rufus T. Dorsey, moved to
Atlanta in 1879 and entered the prac
tIce of law here founding the firm of
Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman,
Of which he was the head until his
death in 1909, and in which his son
succeeding him.
Governor Dorsey was educated in the
public schools of Atlanta and gradual
ed from the University of Georgia in
the class of 1893 with the A. B. de-
gree Among his college mates were
President Olive of the state senate and
Speaker Holder of the house. After
graduation he took special course in
law at the University of Virginia, and
was employed by his fathers law firm,
afterwards becoming partner.
He was appointed solicitor general
of Fulton Superior court by Governor
Joseph M. Brown in 1910, and served
until July 1916. when he resigned to
make the race for governor. During
his occupancy of the office he prose-
cuted Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace Mrs. Cal
lie Scott Applebaum. Leo NJ Frank
and Victor e. Innes and his wife, these
four cases being among the most
famous in the criminal history of the
state.
In 1911, Governor Dorsey married
Miss Adair Wilkinson, of Valdosta.
prominent and popular society girl
whose family is we'll known in south
Georgia. They have two sons. Hugh
: M. Dorsey, Jr., aged years, AMI
H Names Wilkinson Dorsey, aged years.
They now live on Peachtree road, but
Will shortly move into the governors
mansion.