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Georgia Secretary of State

political position in Georgia, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7444367 ↗
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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.

The office has had a four-year term since 1946. Before 1880, the secretary of state was elected by the Georgia Assembly, not in a popular election.

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“Georgia Secretary of State” enters the record as political position in Georgia, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Georgia, Secretary and State can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1880—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1777. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Georgia, Secretary and State.
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This entry incorporates text from “Georgia Secretary of State” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.