GEORGIA'S 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

'Georgia's 1st Congressional District' has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by Jack Kingston (Republican) since 1993.
The 1st District comprises the entire coastal area of Sea Islands, where many of the large cotton and rice plantations flourished in the nineteenth century, and much of the rural southeastern part of the state. This section of the South was solidly Democratic country for many years after General Sherman's troops marched through Georgia, but voters here are conservative on cultural, military, and economic issues. In addition to Savannah, the district includes a few modest-sized towns such as Brunswick, Waycross, and Valdosta. However, much of the district is rural, with cotton and tobacco fields. There are five military bases in the district: Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, at Kings Bay in Camden County, Fort Stewart, near Hinesville in Liberty County, Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, and Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta.
Georgia's First was the first congressional district featured on ''The Colbert Report's'' 434 part series "Better Know A District" segment on October 18, 2005.

Contents

Counties

Past Representation

See also

External links

Counties

★ Appling County

★ Atkinson County

★ Bacon County

★ Berrien County

★ Brantley County

★ Bryan County

★ Camden County

★ Charlton County

★ Chatham County (''see also '')

★ Clinch County

★ Coffee County

★ Cook County

★ Echols County

★ Glynn County

★ Jeff Davis County

★ Lanier County

★ Liberty County

★ Long County

★ Lowndes County (''see also '')

★ McIntosh County

★ Pierce County

★ Telfair County

★ Ware County

★ Wayne County

★ Wheeler County

Past Representation

Years	Congress	Representative	Party
1789-1799	1st-5th	Abraham Baldwin
1799-1801	6th	James Jones	Federalist
1801-1803	7th	John Milledge	Democratic-Republican
1803-1807	8th-9th	Peter Early	Democratic-Republican
1807-1811	10th-11th	Howell Cobb	Democratic-Republican
1811-1815	12th-13th	William Barnett	Democratic-Republican
1815-1817	14th	Richard H. Wilde	Democratic-Republican
1817-1825	15th-18th	Joel Abbott	Democratic-Republican
1825-1831	19th-21st	Charles E. Hayes
1831-1833	22nd	Daniel Newman
1833-1836	23rd-24th	John E. Coffee	Democratic-Republican
1836-1841	24th-26th	William Crosby Dawson	Whig
1841-1844	27th-28th	Mark A. Cooper	Democratic
1844-1845	28th	Alexander H. Stevens	Whig
1845-1849	29th-30th	Thomas B. King	Whig
1849-1853	31st-32nd	Joseph W. Jackson	Democratic
1853-1859	33rd-35th	James L. Seward	Democratic
1859-1861	36th	Peter Early Love	Democratic
1861-1867	Civil War
1867-1869	40th	Joseph W. Clift	Republican
1869-1871	41st	William W. Paine	Democratic
1871-1873	42nd	Archibal T. MacIntyre	Democratic
1873-1874	43rd	Morgan Rawls	Democratic
1874-1875	43rd	Andrew Sloan	Republican
1875-1877	44th	Julian Hartridge	Democratic
1877-1879	45th	William Bennett Fleming	Democratic
1879-1881	46th	John C. Nicholls	Democratic
1881-1883	47th	George R. Black	Democratic
1883-1885	48th	John C. Nicholls	Democratic
1885-1889	49th-50th	Thomas M. Norwood	Democratic
1889-1905	51st-58th	Rufus E. Lester	Democratic
1905-1907	59th	James W. Overstreet	Democratic
1907-1917	60th-64th	Charles G. Edwards	Democratic
1917-1923	65th-67th	James W. Overstreet	Democratic
1923-1925	68th	R. Lee Moore	Democratic
1925-1931	69th-71st	Charles G. Edwards	Democratic
1931-1935	72nd-73rd	Homer C. Parker	Democratic
1935-1947	74th-79th	Hugh Peterson	Democratic
1947-1961	80th-86th	Prince H. Preston Jr.	Democratic
1961-1973	87th-92nd	G. Elliot Hagan	Democratic
1973-1983	93rd-97th	Ronald B. Ginn	Democratic
1983-1993	98th-102nd	Robert Lindsey Thomas	Democratic
1993-	103rd-	Jack Kingston	Republican

See also

★ Georgia Congressional Districts

External links

★ PDF map of Georgia's 1st district at ''nationalatlas.gov''

★ Georgia's 1st district at ''GovTrack.us''