Mike Thurmond

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Michael L. (Mike) Thurmond (born 1953) is the current Commissioner of Labor for the state of Georgia.

Born in rural Clarke County, Georgia, Thurmond graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Paine College in 1975 and later earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.

In 1986, he became the first African-American elected to the Georgia General Assembly from Clarke County since Reconstruction. Thurmond was elected Labor Commissioner in November of 1998 and was re-elected in 2002 and in 2006.

Thurmond has also lectured at the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government and is the author of several books on Georgia history.

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• The History Makers
• Thurmond campaign site biography
• About the Department of Labor

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