Eugene Talmadge served as Georgia’s [Democratic Party] governor from
1933-1937 and from 1941-1943. He won re-election in 1946 but croaked of
liver cirrhosis before he could serve in office a third time. In the
1946 election he lost the popular vote but won the election anyway
because Georgia had a rule that whoever won the most counties won the
election. Sound familiar? Talmadge was an ardent segregationist who
believed in slave labor. He claimed to be a populist (like Trump) but
supported the interests of wealthy landowners (like Trump). He had
striking textile workers arrested and put into POW camps. He complained
to President Roosevelt about New Deal public works programs that paid
better than local farmers who were used to cheating poor people into
working for obscenely low wages. Talmadge wasn’t much of a reader, but
he did read Hitler’s Mein Kampf 7 times, and he sympathized with both
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. In turn Germany’s Nazi Party praised
Talmadge. Talmadge attended KKK meetings and bragged about how he
flogged black sharecroppers. As governor, he fired de-segregationists
serving on the University of Georgia’s Board of Regents, setting back
integration there for decades. Talmadge was also behind a lynching that
resulted in the deaths of 2 young African-American couples.
https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/monsters-from-georgia/
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