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GA HR1974
Resolution
Status
Introduced
4/14/2010
Primary Sponsor
Tyrone Brooks
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AI Summary
- Requests the Capitol Art Standards Commission consider hanging a portrait of the Honorable Griffin Boyette Bell at the Georgia state capitol
- Griffin Boyette Bell served as the 72nd United States Attorney General, sworn in on January 26, 1977, by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger after nomination by President Jimmy Carter
- Bell was appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as a U.S. Circuit Judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where he served 15 years and supervised the creation of dozens of school desegregation plans
- Bell served as a major in the U.S. Army during World War II, graduated cum laude from Mercer University Law School, and became managing partner of Atlanta law firm King and Spalding in 1958
- Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to transmit copies of the resolution to the Capitol Art Standards Commission
Legislative Description
Capitol Arts Standards Commission; hang portrait of Honorable Griffin Boyette Bell; request
Last Action
House Second Readers
4/20/2010
Committee Referrals
State Institutions and Property4/14/2010
Full Bill Text
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