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GA HR1974

Resolution

Status

Introduced

4/14/2010

Primary Sponsor

Tyrone Brooks

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Origin

House of Representatives

2009-2010 Regular Session

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

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