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Creation Date
5-4-2012
Description
Seven Governors Marker Monroe GA.
This marker signifies that seven governors have lived in Walton County, Georgia. It is on City hall in Munroe.
The text reads as : Seven Governors have lived in Walton County.
" Walton County has been the home either through birth or short residence of the following Georgia Chief Executives:
WILSON LUMPKIN (1831-1835)
ALFRED HOLT COLQUITT (1877-1882)
JAMES S. BOYNTON (1883)
HENRY D. McDANIEL (1883-1886)
CLIFFORD WALKER (1923-1927)
RICHARD B. RUSSELL, JR. (1931-1933)
Two of these illustrious sons, Colquitt and Russell, became United States Senators. Richard B. Hubbard, born on a plantation in Walton County in 1836, later moved to Texas and became Governor of that state."
GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955
Latitude, Longitude
33.79250000, -83.71260000
Recommended Citation
George Lansing Taylor, Jr.
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