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</li> <li id="toc-U.S._House_of_Representatives_(1999–2005)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#U.S._House_of_Representatives_(1999–2005)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2005)</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-U.S._House_of_Representatives_(1999–2005)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2005) subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-U.S._House_of_Representatives_(1999–2005)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Elections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="جانی ایزاکسون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="جانی ایزاکسون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9_%CE%8A%CE%B6%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD" title="Τζόνι Ίζακσον – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζόνι Ίζακσον" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="جانی ایزاکسون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جانی ایزاکسون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D4%B1%D5%B5%D5%A6%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6" title="Ջոնի Այզաքսոն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջոնի Այզաքսոն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%96%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F" title="ג'וני אייזקסון – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'וני אייזקסון" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Isakson" title="Ioannes Isakson – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ioannes Isakson" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="جونى ايساكسون – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جونى ايساكسون" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Isakson" title="Johnny Isakson – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Johnny Isakson" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" 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class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2005 – December 31, 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Zell_Miller" title="Zell Miller">Zell Miller</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler" title="Kelly Loeffler">Kelly Loeffler</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Chair of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs">Senate Veterans Affairs Committee</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2015 – December 19, 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Moran" title="Jerry Moran">Jerry Moran</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Chair of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics">Senate Ethics Committee</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2015 – December 19, 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Boxer" title="Barbara Boxer">Barbara Boxer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Lankford" title="James Lankford">James Lankford</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a></span><br />from <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>'s <span data-sort-value="Georgia06 !"><a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district">6th</a></span> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />February 23, 1999 – January 3, 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Price_(American_politician)" title="Tom Price (American politician)">Tom Price</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_State_Senate" title="Georgia State Senate">Georgia State Senate</a></span><br />from the 21st district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 11, 1993 – January 6, 1997</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_F._English" title="William F. English">William F. English</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Lamutt<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_minority_leaders_of_the_Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="List of minority leaders of the Georgia House of Representatives">Minority Leader</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 10, 1983 – January 11, 1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Herbert Jones Jr.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Paul Heard</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the<br /><a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/Cobb_County,_Georgia" title="Cobb County, Georgia">Cobb County</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 10, 1977 – January 11, 1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Edwards" title="Charles W. Edwards">Charles W. Edwards</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Lynda Coker</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data">20-Post 1 (1977–1983)<br />21-Post 2 (1983–1991)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Hardy Isakson</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1944-12-28</span>)</span>December 28, 1944<br /><a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, Georgia, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">December 19, 2021<span style="display:none">(2021-12-19)</span> (aged 76)</span><br />Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Dianne Davison</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1968)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Business_Administration" title="Bachelor of Business Administration">BBA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Johnny Isakson's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg/128px-JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg" decoding="async" width="128" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg/192px-JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg/256px-JohnnyIsaksonSignature.jpg 2x" data-file-width="953" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg/19px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg/29px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg/38px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Air_Force.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="6336" data-file-height="4992" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1966–1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Staff_sergeant" title="Staff sergeant">Staff Sergeant</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Air_National_Guard" title="Georgia Air National Guard">Georgia Air National Guard</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-left listen noprint listen-embedded listen-noimage listen-center"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Sen._Johnny_Isakson_Honors_Georgian_T._Rogers_Wade.ogg" title="File:Sen. Johnny Isakson Honors Georgian T. Rogers Wade.ogg">Johnny Isakson's voice</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="215" style="width:215px;" data-durationhint="215" data-mwtitle="Sen._Johnny_Isakson_Honors_Georgian_T._Rogers_Wade.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Sen._Johnny_Isakson_Honors_Georgian_T._Rogers_Wade.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/Sen._Johnny_Isakson_Honors_Georgian_T._Rogers_Wade.ogg/Sen._Johnny_Isakson_Honors_Georgian_T._Rogers_Wade.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">Isakson honors Georgian businessman and political operative T. Rogers Wade<br />Recorded February 15, 2011</div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Hardy Isakson</b> (December 28, 1944 – December 19, 2021) was an American businessman and politician who served as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> from 2005 to 2019. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, he previously served in the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_General_Assembly" title="Georgia General Assembly">Georgia legislature</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>. </p><p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, Georgia, Isakson served in the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Air_National_Guard" title="Georgia Air National Guard">Georgia Air National Guard</a> (1966–1972) and graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a>. He opened a real estate branch for Northside Realty and later served 22 years as the company's president. After a failed bid for the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a> in 1974, he was elected in 1976. He served seven terms, including four as minority leader. Isakson was the Republican candidate for <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Georgia" title="Governor of Georgia">governor of Georgia</a> in <a href="/wiki/1990_Georgia_gubernatorial_election" title="1990 Georgia gubernatorial election">1990</a>, but lost. Two years later, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia Senate">Georgia Senate</a> and served one term. He unsuccessfully ran in the Republican primary in the <a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="1996 United States Senate election in Georgia">1996 U.S. Senate election</a>. </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district">6th District</a> Congressman and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> resigned, Isakson ran in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district_special_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election">February 1999 special election</a> to succeed him, winning by a 40-point margin. He ran for the U.S. Senate in <a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2004 United States Senate election in Georgia">2004</a> after <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> incumbent <a href="/wiki/Zell_Miller" title="Zell Miller">Zell Miller</a> opted not to run for re-election. With the backing of much of Georgia's Republican establishment, he won both the primary and general elections by wide margins. He became the senior senator from Georgia when <a href="/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss" title="Saxby Chambliss">Saxby Chambliss</a> retired in 2015. On December 31, 2019, midway through his third Senate term, Isakson resigned from the Senate due to health concerns and was succeeded by fellow Republican <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler" title="Kelly Loeffler">Kelly Loeffler</a> who was appointed by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Kemp" title="Brian Kemp">Brian Kemp</a>, the Republican Governor of Georgia, to fill the vacant seat. He died two years later on December 19, 2021. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_education,_and_real_estate_career"><span id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_real_estate_career"></span>Early life, education, and real estate career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and real estate career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Isakson was born on December 28, 1944, in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, Georgia, the son of Julia (<i>née</i> Baker) and Edwin Andrew Isakson, a <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Greyhound bus">Greyhound bus</a> driver,<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who later established an Atlanta real estate firm.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His paternal grandparents were of <a href="/wiki/Swedish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish American">Swedish</a> descent, and his paternal grandfather was born in <a href="/wiki/%C3%96stersund" title="Östersund">Östersund</a>. His mother was of mostly <a href="/wiki/British_American" class="mw-redirect" title="British American">British</a> ancestry, and her family has been in the American South since the colonial era.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isakson served in the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Air_National_Guard" title="Georgia Air National Guard">Georgia Air National Guard</a> from 1966 to 1972, leaving service as a staff sergeant.<sup id="cite_ref-navyleague_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-navyleague-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isakson enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a>, where he became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Alpha_Epsilon" title="Sigma Alpha Epsilon">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a> social fraternity.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Record_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Record-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after graduating from UGA, he opened the first <a href="/wiki/Cobb_County,_Georgia" title="Cobb County, Georgia">Cobb County</a> office of Northside Realty, a prominent Atlanta-area real estate firm that his father, Ed, helped to establish. Isakson became company president in 1979, a post he held for 22 years, during which Northside became the biggest independent real estate company in the Southeast and one of the largest in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (March 2020)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career_(1974–1998)"><span id="Early_political_career_.281974.E2.80.931998.29"></span>Early political career (1974–1998)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early political career (1974–1998)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Johnny_Isakson_1977.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Johnny_Isakson_1977.png/220px-Johnny_Isakson_1977.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Johnny_Isakson_1977.png 1.5x" data-file-width="287" data-file-height="362" /></a><figcaption>Isakson as a state representative in 1977</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Georgia_House_of_Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Georgia House of Representatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1974, Isakson first ran for the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a> in an eastern Cobb County district and lost. He ran again in 1976 and won. He served seven terms in the House. He won re-election unopposed in 1984<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his last four terms (1983–1990), he was the Republican <a href="/wiki/Minority_leader" title="Minority leader">Minority leader</a>. In 1988 and 1996, he was co-chair for U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Bob Dole</a>'s presidential primary campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990_gubernatorial_election">1990 gubernatorial election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1990 gubernatorial election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C37241_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C37241_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C37241_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C37241_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C37241_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C37241_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="422" data-file-height="275" /></a><figcaption>Isakson greeting President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> in 1986</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1990_Georgia_gubernatorial_election" title="1990 Georgia gubernatorial election">1990 Georgia gubernatorial election</a></div> <p>Isakson was the Republican candidate for <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Georgia" title="Governor of Georgia">Governor of Georgia</a> in 1990. He won the Republican primary with 74% of the vote in a four candidate field.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the general election, he was defeated by <a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Georgia" title="Lieutenant Governor of Georgia">Lieutenant Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Zell_Miller" title="Zell Miller">Zell Miller</a> 53%–45%.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His campaign was managed by Jay Morgan while Miller's campaign was managed by <a href="/wiki/James_Carville" title="James Carville">James Carville</a>. Miller ran on a pledge to start a <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Lottery" title="Georgia Lottery">state lottery</a> and use the revenue for <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Education in Georgia (U.S. state)">public schools</a>. Isakson proposed a <a href="/wiki/Ballot_referendum" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballot referendum">ballot referendum</a> on the lottery.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Georgia_Senate">Georgia Senate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Georgia Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bush_Contact_Sheet_P15017_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Bush_Contact_Sheet_P15017_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Bush_Contact_Sheet_P15017_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Bush_Contact_Sheet_P15017_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Bush_Contact_Sheet_P15017_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Bush_Contact_Sheet_P15017_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="277" /></a><figcaption>Isakson with President <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> in 1990</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1992, Isakson was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia Senate">Georgia Senate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1996_U.S._Senate_election">1996 U.S. Senate election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1996 U.S. Senate election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="1996 United States Senate election in Georgia">1996 United States Senate election in Georgia</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_Senate_elections" title="1996 United States Senate elections">1996</a>, Isakson ran in the Republican <a href="/wiki/Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">primary</a> for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democratic U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Sam_Nunn" title="Sam Nunn">Sam Nunn</a>. During his campaign, Isakson expressed his support for abortion rights in a campaign advertisement.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isakson finished second in the <a href="/wiki/Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">primary election</a> with 35% of the vote, but the winner <a href="/wiki/Guy_Millner" title="Guy Millner">Guy Millner</a>, a millionaire businessman, failed to get a majority of the vote (receiving only 42%).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Therefore, per Georgia law, he was forced into a primary <a href="/wiki/Runoff_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Runoff election">runoff election</a>. Millner defeated Isakson in the runoff 53%–47%.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Millner lost the general election to Democrat <a href="/wiki/Max_Cleland" title="Max Cleland">Max Cleland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 1996, Isakson was appointed head of the State Board of Education by Gov. Zell Miller.<sup id="cite_ref-aap08-bio_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aap08-bio-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._House_of_Representatives_(1999–2005)"><span id="U.S._House_of_Representatives_.281999.E2.80.932005.29"></span>U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2005)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2005)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections">Elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>1999</dt></dl> <p>In November 1998, <a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district">6th District</a> U.S. Congressman and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> faced a revolt in his caucus after the Republicans lost five seats in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1998" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1998">midterm elections</a>. Amid the turmoil, Gingrich announced on Friday after the Tuesday elections not only that he would not run for a third term as Speaker, but he would also not take his seat for an eleventh term beginning in January 1999. Isakson ran for the seat in a <a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district_special_election,_1999" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, 1999">special election in February.</a> He won the election with 65% of the vote, forty points ahead of the second-place finisher Christina Fawcett Jeffrey.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>2000</dt></dl> <p>Isakson won re-election to his first full term with 74.75% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>2002</dt></dl><p> Isakson won re-election to his second full term with 79.87% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg/250px-Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg/375px-Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg/500px-Bush_Air_Force_One.jpg 2x" data-file-width="988" data-file-height="732" /></a><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and Senator Isakson aboard <i>Air Force One</i> in 2005.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tenure">Tenure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Tenure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During his tenure in the House of Representatives, Isakson served on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Education_and_the_Workforce" title="United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce">Committee on Education and the Workforce</a>, aiding President Bush in passing the <a href="/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act" title="No Child Left Behind Act">No Child Left Behind Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a Representative, Isakson sponsored 27 bills.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/House_Education_and_the_Workforce_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Education and the Workforce Committee">U.S. House Education Committee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2002, Isakson voted in favor of the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">authorization of force against the country of Iraq</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._Senate_(2005–2019)"><span id="U.S._Senate_.282005.E2.80.932019.29"></span>U.S. Senate (2005–2019)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate (2005–2019)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg/220px-Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg/330px-Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg/440px-Neil_Gorsuch_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2730" /></a><figcaption>Isakson with <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Neil Gorsuch</a> in 2017</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg/220px-Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg/330px-Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg/440px-Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Johnny_Isakson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1620" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption>Isakson with <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh">Brett Kavanaugh</a> in 2018</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_2">Elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2004">2004</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2004"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2004 United States Senate election in Georgia">2004 United States Senate election in Georgia</a></div> <p>In early 2003, <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/Zell_Miller" title="Zell Miller">Zell Miller</a>—who had been appointed to fill out the term of the late Republican Senator <a href="/wiki/Paul_Coverdell" title="Paul Coverdell">Paul Coverdell</a> and elected to the post in his own right in 2000—declared his intention not to run for a full term in the Senate in 2004. Isakson immediately entered the race. He faced <a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 8th congressional district">8th District</a> U.S. Congressman <a href="/wiki/Mac_Collins" title="Mac Collins">Mac Collins</a> and businessman <a href="/wiki/Herman_Cain" title="Herman Cain">Herman Cain</a> in the primary.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was initially thought Isakson would face a difficult primary since many socially conservative Republicans still felt chagrin at Isakson's declared support for abortion rights in 1990. However, he won the Republican primary with 53%, with Cain a distant second and Collins third, averting the need for a runoff. In the general election, he easily defeated the Democratic candidate, <a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 4th congressional district">4th District</a> Congresswoman <a href="/wiki/Denise_Majette" title="Denise Majette">Denise Majette</a>, by 18 points. Isakson's election marked the first time in Georgia's history that both of the state's U.S. Senate seats had been held by Republicans, as <a href="/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss" title="Saxby Chambliss">Saxby Chambliss</a> had won the other seat by defeating Nunn's successor, <a href="/wiki/Max_Cleland" title="Max Cleland">Max Cleland</a>, two years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. Articles need references to reliable third-party sources. (August 2020)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2010">2010</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2010 United States Senate election in Georgia">2010 United States Senate election in Georgia</a></div> <p>In 2010, Isakson was unopposed in the primary. He won re-election with 58.3% of the vote in 2010, defeating State Commissioner of Labor <a href="/wiki/Mike_Thurmond" title="Mike Thurmond">Mike Thurmond</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2016">2016</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2016"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2016 United States Senate election in Georgia">2016 United States Senate election in Georgia</a></div> <p>Isakson was re-elected to a third term in 2016 with 54.8% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tenure_and_legislation">Tenure and legislation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Tenure and legislation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a senator, Isakson sponsored or co-sponsored 130 bills, just 8 of which became law.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, Isakson apologized for referring to voters as "the unwashed" in off-hand comments, saying he "didn't mean anything derogatory by it."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isakson resigned from the Senate for health reasons on December 31, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the longest serving Republican senator in the history of Georgia.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Committee assignments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Finance" title="United States Senate Committee on Finance">Committee on Finance</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Finance_Subcommittee_on_International_Trade,_Customs,_and_Global_Competitiveness" title="United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness">Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness</a><sup id="cite_ref-EY_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EY-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Finance_Subcommittee_on_Social_Security,_Pensions,_and_Family_Policy" title="United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy">Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Finance_Subcommittee_on_Taxation_and_IRS_Oversight" title="United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight">Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight</a><sup id="cite_ref-EY_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EY-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Health,_Education,_Labor,_and_Pensions" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions">Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Health_Subcommittee_on_Employment_and_Workplace_Safety" title="United States Senate Health Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety">Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety</a> (Chairman)<sup id="cite_ref-CommitteesFeb2015_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CommitteesFeb2015-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs">Committee on Veterans' Affairs</a></b> (Chairman)<sup id="cite_ref-CommitteesFeb2015_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CommitteesFeb2015-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics">Select Committee on Ethics</a></b> (Chairman)<sup id="cite_ref-CommitteesFeb2015_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CommitteesFeb2015-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations">Committee on Foreign Relations</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_African_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs">Subcommittee on African Affairs</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Foreign_Relations_Subcommittee_on_East_Asian_and_Pacific_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs">Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs</a><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Political positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When compared to his Republican peers in the Senate, Isakson was close to center of his party; he was neither significantly more conservative nor liberal than his peers.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abortion">Abortion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Abortion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During his campaign for <a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="1996 United States Senate election in Georgia">U.S. senator in 1996</a>, Isakson expressed his support for abortion rights in a campaign advertisement.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, Isakson reportedly identified himself as pro-life with exceptions.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2017, Isakson—who was recovering from back surgery—came to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Capitol">U.S. Capitol</a> in a wheelchair to vote to repeal an <a href="/wiki/Obama_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama administration">Obama administration</a> rule that had made it unlawful for states to bar abortion providers from receiving Title X funding. The Senate vote on the bill was 50–50, and Vice President <a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Mike Pence</a> cast a tie-breaking vote that allowed the bill to pass.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Agriculture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2019, Isakson was one of eight senators to introduce the Agricultural Trucking Relief Act, a bill that would alter the definition of an agricultural commodity to include both horticultural and aquacultural products and promote a larger consistency in regulation through both federal and state agencies as part of an attempt to ease regulatory burdens on trucking and the agri-community.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gun_laws">Gun laws</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Gun laws"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2017, Isakson said that while he did support <a href="/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States" title="Concealed carry in the United States">concealed carry</a> nationwide, he did not support <a href="/wiki/Campus_carry_in_the_United_States" title="Campus carry in the United States">campus carry</a> and stated that it is "not the appropriate thing to do."<sup id="cite_ref-Harris1004_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harris1004-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2018, in response to the <a href="/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Stoneman Douglas High School shooting">Stoneman Douglas High School shooting</a>, Isakson said, "We have to do everything we can within our powers to make sure it never happens again."<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Healthcare">Healthcare</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Healthcare"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Isakson voted against the <a href="/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a> and voted more than 60 times to repeal it.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (March 2020)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Immigration">Immigration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Immigration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2019, Isakson voted to support President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s national emergency declaration regarding border security.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Isakson and his wife, Dianne, were married in 1968, and had three children.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife is a <a href="/wiki/Watercolor" class="mw-redirect" title="Watercolor">watercolor</a> artist,<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and served as honorary co-chair for <a href="/wiki/Marietta,_Georgia" title="Marietta, Georgia">Marietta</a>'s Theatre in the Square playhouse in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_and_death">Health and death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Health and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2015, Isakson disclosed that he had been diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>, but added that the diagnosis would not affect his 2016 re-election plans.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued his campaign and was elected in November 2016 to serve a third six-year term in the Senate. On August 28, 2019, however, Isakson announced that he would resign his Senate seat for health reasons on December 31, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isakson died at his home in Atlanta on December 19, 2021, nine days short of his 77th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McFadden_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McFadden-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Isakson&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>1990 Georgia gubernatorial election<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Zell_Miller" title="Zell Miller">Zell Miller</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">766,662 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52.89 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−17.62 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Johnny Isakson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">645,625 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.05 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Carole Ann Rand </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,367 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">±0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">121,037 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,449,654 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #3333FF;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2000 general election in Georgia's 6th congressional district<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (US)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>256,595 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>74.75% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (US)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Brett DeHart </td> <td style="text-align:right">86,666 </td> <td style="text-align:right">25.25% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>343,261 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span class="nowrap"> </span> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (US)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2002 general election in Georgia's 6th congressional district<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (US)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>163,209 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>79.91% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (US)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jeff Weisberger </td> <td style="text-align:right">41,043 </td> <td style="text-align:right">20.09% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>204,252 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><span class="nowrap"> </span> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="background-color: #E81B23"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (US)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2004 U.S. Senate Republican primary election in Georgia<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>346,765 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.2% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Herman_Cain" title="Herman Cain">Herman Cain</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">170,464 </td> <td style="text-align:right">26.2% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Mac_Collins" title="Mac Collins">Mac Collins</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">134,053 </td> <td style="text-align:right">20.6% </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>2004 U.S. Senate general election in Georgia<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,864,205 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.88% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+19.97% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Denise_Majette" title="Denise Majette">Denise Majette</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,287,695 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.98% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−18.22% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Allen Buckley </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">69,051 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.14% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.14% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">576,510 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.90% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,220,951 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E81B23"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2010 U.S. Senate Republican primary election in Georgia<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>558,298 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>558,298 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>2010 U.S. Senate general election in Georgia<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,489,904 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>58.31% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.43% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael Thurmond </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">996,516 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.00% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.98% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Chuck Donovan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68,750 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.69% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.55% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DDDDBB; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (United States)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Steve Davis (<a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">write-in</a>) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.00% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DDDDBB; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (United States)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Raymond Beckworth (<a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">write-in</a>) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.00% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DDDDBB; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (United States)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Brian Russell Brown (<a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">write-in</a>) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.00% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">493,388 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.31% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>2,555,258 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2016 U.S. Senate Republican primary election in Georgia<sup id="cite_ref-GAprimaryresults_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GAprimaryresults-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>447,661 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>77.50% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Derrick Grayson </td> <td style="text-align:right">69,101 </td> <td style="text-align:right">11.96% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mary Kay Bacallao </td> <td style="text-align:right">60,898 </td> <td style="text-align:right">10.54% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>577,660 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00% </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>2016 U.S. Senate general election in Georgia<sup id="cite_ref-GAGeneralResults_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GAGeneralResults-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>Johnny Isakson (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,135,806 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.80% </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−3.51% </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #3333FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jim Barksdale </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,599,726 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.04% </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.04% </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FED105; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Allen Buckley </td> <td 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Edwards">C. W. "Chuck" Edwards</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a><br />from the 20th district, Post 1 </b><br />1977–1983 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Joe Mack Wilson</div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Al_Burruss" title="Al Burruss">Al Burruss</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a><br />from the 21st district, Post 2 </b><br />1983–1991 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Lynda Coker</div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Herbert Jones Jr.</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_minority_leaders_of_the_Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="List of minority leaders of the Georgia House of Representatives">Minority Leader</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_House_of_Representatives" title="Georgia House of Representatives">Georgia House of Representatives</a> </b><br />1983–1991 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Paul Heard</div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_State_Senate" title="Georgia State Senate">Georgia State Senate</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_F._English" title="William F. English">William F. English</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_State_Senate" title="Georgia State Senate">Georgia State Senate</a><br />from the 21st district </b><br />1993–1997 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Robert Lamutt</div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;">Party political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Davis_(politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guy Davis (politician) (page does not exist)">Guy Davis</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> nominee for <a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Georgia">Governor of Georgia</a> </b><br /><a href="/wiki/1990_Georgia_gubernatorial_election" title="1990 Georgia gubernatorial election">1990</a> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Millner" title="Guy Millner">Guy Millner</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Mack_Mattingly" title="Mack Mattingly">Mack Mattingly</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> nominee for <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Senators from Georgia">U.S. Senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Classes_of_United_States_Senators" class="mw-redirect" title="Classes of United States Senators">Class 3</a>) </b><br /><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2004 United States Senate election in Georgia">2004</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2010 United States Senate election in Georgia">2010</a>, <a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_Senate_election_in_Georgia" title="2016 United States Senate election in Georgia">2016</a> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler" title="Kelly Loeffler">Kelly Loeffler</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Representatives from Georgia">U.S. House of Representatives</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/Georgia%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 6th congressional district">Georgia's 6th congressional district</a> </b><br />1999–2005 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Price_(American_politician)" title="Tom Price (American politician)">Tom Price</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Zell_Miller" title="Zell Miller">Zell Miller</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States Senators from Georgia">U.S. Senator (Class 3) from Georgia</a> </b><br />2005–2019 <br />Served alongside: <b><a href="/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss" title="Saxby Chambliss">Saxby Chambliss</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Perdue" title="David Perdue">David Perdue</a></b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler" title="Kelly Loeffler">Kelly Loeffler</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn">John Cornyn</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Ranking Member of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics">Senate Ethics Committee</a> </b><br />2009–2015 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Boxer" title="Barbara Boxer">Barbara Boxer</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Chair of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Veterans%27_Affairs" title="United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs">Senate Veterans Affairs Committee</a> </b><br />2015–2019 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Moran" title="Jerry Moran">Jerry Moran</a></div> </td></tr> 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