Governor Hugh M. Dorsey--GHS 56-3-Fayette Co
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N 33° 26.737 W 084° 27.295
16S E 736579 N 3703587
240 South Glynn Street, Fayetteville, GA.
Waymark Code: WM7J6D
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2009
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Hugh Manson Dorsey was born in Fayetteville , and was admitted to the Georgia bar at the Fayette County Courthouse in 1894. After practicing law at his father’s firm, Dorsey became solicitor general of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit in 1910. In this capacity, he prosecuted the 1913 murder case against Leo Frank. During his two-term governorship (1917-1921), Dorsey oversaw the wider implementation of the county unit system of election favoring rural areas; appointed Richard R. Wright, Sr. to direct Georgia’s African-American war effort during WWI; and published a pamphlet opposing the unjust treatment of African Americans in Georgia. Hugh Dorsey is buried in Atlanta’s Westview Cemetery.
2006 Erected by Georgia Historical Society, the Fayette County Historical Society, the Fayette Heritage Project, Fayetteville Main Street and the Fayetteville Development Department. 56-3
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 56-3
Date: 2006.1
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society, the Fayette County Historical Society, the Fayette Heritage Project, Fayetteville Main Street and the Fayetteville Development Department
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