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Thurbert Baker
46th Attorney General of Georgia
In office June 1, 1997 – January 10, 2011
Governor
Zell Miller Roy Barnes Sonny Perdue
Preceded by
Mike Bowers
Succeeded by
Sam Olens
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 70th district
In office January 11, 1993 – June 1, 1997
Preceded by
John T. Simpson
Succeeded by
Stan Watson
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 51st district
In office January 9, 1989 – January 11, 1993
Preceded by
Ken Workman
Succeeded by
Billy McKinney
Personal details
Born
Thurbert Earl Baker[1]
(1952-12-16) December 16, 1952 (age 71) Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Catherine Baker
Alma mater
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA) Emory University (JD)
Thurbert Earl Baker (born December 16, 1952)[2] was the first African American Attorney General of the U.S. state of Georgia. He was appointed to the position in 1997 by Governor Zell Miller[3] and served until January 10, 2011.
Governor Zell Miller installed Thurbert Baker (at the time his chief lieutenant in the Georgia House of Representatives) as attorney general on June 1, 1997, making him the first African-American to hold that job in Georgia and the only black state attorney general in the country at the time. Baker was subsequently elected to the position three times as a Democrat.[3] In the 2006 general election, Baker received more votes—and a higher percentage of the vote—than any other Democrat running statewide in Georgia, being one of three Democrats to win statewide that year (the other two being Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin and Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond). These three would remain the last Democrats to win statewide in Georgia until 2020, when Joe Biden narrowly carried the state in his successful presidential bid. Baker served the fourth-longest tenure as Attorney General in state history (behind Eugene Cook, Arthur K. Bolton and Michael J. Bowers).
^University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Class of 1975) Commencement, page 72
^"Thurbert Baker 1952 - Google Search".
^ abKapochunas, Rachel (2009-04-02). "Georgia Attorney General Joins Race for Governor". Congressional Quarterly. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
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