Secretary of State of Georgia

The secretary of state of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records.

Secretary of State Karen Handel announced her resignation in January 2010, and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed Brian Kemp to replace her.^[1]

List of Secretaries of State of Georgia

#	Name	Party	Took Office	Left Office
1^[2]	John Milton		1777	1799
2	Horatio Marbury		1799	1811
3	Abner Hammond		1811	1823
4	Everard Hamilton		1823	1833
5	William A. Tennille		1833	1843
6	Nathan Crawford Barnett		1843	1849
7	George Washington Harrison		1849	1851
8	Nathan Crawford Barnett		1851	1853
9	Elihu P. Watkins		1853	1861
10	Nathan Crawford Barnett		1861	1868
11	David G. Cotting	Republican	1868	1873
12	Nathan Crawford Barnett	Democrat ^[4]	1873	1890 ^a
13	Philip Cook, Sr.	Democrat	1890	1894 ^a
14	Allen D. Candler	Democrat	1894	1898
15	William C. Clifton		1898	1898
16	Philip Cook, Jr.	Democrat	1898	1918 ^a
17	Henry Bascomb Strange		1918	1919
18	Samuel Guyton McLendon		1919	1928 ^a
19	George Henry Carswell	Democrat	1928	1931
20	John Bryan Wilson	Democrat	1931	1946 ^a
21	Benjamin Wynn “Ben” Fortson, Jr.	Democrat	1946	1979 ^a
22	David Bryan Poythress	Democrat	1979	1983
23	Joseph Maxwell “Max” Cleland	Democrat	1983	1996
24	Lewis Abit Massey	Democrat	1996	1999
25	Lera Catharine “Cathy” Cox	Democrat	1999	2007
26	Karen C. Handel	Republican	2007	2010
27	Brian Kemp	Republican	2010	incumbent

(a) Died in Office

External links

References

^ Governor Appoints Brian Kemp Secretary of State (Press release).
^ Official List of Secretaries of State
^ Political Graveyard
^ Colonel Nathan C. Barnett

State secretaries of state in the United States

AL: Beth Chapman (R)
AK: No such office
AR: Mark Martin (R)
AZ: Ken Bennett (R)
CA: Debra Bowen (D)
CO: Scott Gessler (R)
CT: Denise Merrill (D)
DE: Harriet Smith Windsor (D)
FL: Kurt S. Browning (R)
GA: Brian Kemp (R)

HI: No such office
ID: Ben Ysursa (R)
IL: Jesse White (D)
IN: Disputed
IA: Matt Schultz (R)
KS: Kris Kobach (R)
KY: Alison Lundergan Grimes (D)
LA: Tom Schedler (R)
MD: John P. McDonough (D)
MA: Bill Galvin (D)

ME: Charlie Summers (R)
MI: Ruth Johnson (R)
MN: Mark Ritchie (D)
MS: Delbert Hosemann (R)
MO: Robin Carnahan (D)
MT: Linda McCulloch (D)
NE: John Gale (R)
NV: Ross Miller (D)
NH: Bill Gardner (I)
NJ: Kim Guadagno (R)

NM: Dianna Duran (R)
NY: Cesar A. Perales (D)
NC: Elaine Marshall (D)
ND: Al Jaeger (R)
OH: Jon Husted (R)
OK: Glenn Coffee (R)
OR: Kate Brown (D)
PA: Carol Aichele (R)
RI: Ralph Mollis (D)
SC: Mark Hammond (R)

SD: Jason Gant (R)
TN: Tre Hargett (R)
TX: Esperanza Andrade (R)
UT: No such office
VT: Jim Condos (D)
VA: Janet Polarek (R)
WA: Sam Reed (R)
WV: Natalie Tennant (D)
WI: Doug La Follette (D)
WY: Max Maxfield (R)
AS: Lt. Gov. Ipulasi A. Sunia (D)
DC: Cynthia Brock-Smith (D)
GU: Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio (R)
PR: Kenneth McClintock (D-NPP)
VI: No such office

In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the office is called the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
In states without the office, the lieutenant governor may perform some of the typical duties of a Secretary of State.
Indiana's Secretary of State Charlie White currently faces legal challenges, and his status as an officeholder is disputed.

Current statewide executive officials of Georgia
(term of office ends in January 2015)

Governor

Nathan Deal (Republican)

Other executive officials

Lieutenant Governor: Casey Cagle (Republican) • Secretary of State: Brian Kemp (Republican) • Attorney General: Sam Olens (Republican) • Commissioner of Agriculture: Gary Black (Republican) • Commissioner of Insurance: Ralph Hudgens (Republican) • Commissioner of Labor: Mark Butler (Republican) • Superintendent of Schools: John D. Barge (Republican)