page_title: Denmark Groover Jr.
section_title: Political Career
hierarchical_section_title: Denmark Groover Jr. / Political Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Denmark Groover, Jr. (1922 - 2001)
context_page_description: Denmark Groover Jr. was an American politician who served in the state of Georgia's House of Representatives.
context_section_description: Groover graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in law which helped him reach his political roles. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1953–57, 1963–65, 1971–75, and 1983–95. He supported the 1956 change to the Georgia state flag but in 1993 he acknowledged it was offensive to some and worked for a compromise design.He became infamous when in 1964 during a congressional redistricting bill, he hung from a wall and tried to stop a clock before it signaled the formal end of a session. A photographer captured a photo of the incident, and the photo was printed throughout newspapers which made him somewhat of an embarrassing icon for Georgia politics. He died in 2001 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery (Macon, Georgia).
  In 2002 Groover was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame.
caption: Plaque of Groover at the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame
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