Some of the People Who Ate My Barbecue Didn't Vote for Me: The Life of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin

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“Some of the People Who Ate My Barbecue Didn’t Vote for Me” The Life of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin Scott E.Buchanan Vanderbilt University Press ★ Nashville © 2011 by Vanderbilt University Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235 All rights reserved First printing 2011 This book is printed on acid-free paper made from 30% post-consumer recycled content. Manufactured in the United States of America Frontispiece: Griffin’s gubernatorial inauguration, January 1955. (Joe McTyre Photograph Collection, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buchanan, Scott E. Some of the people who ate my barbecue didn’t vote for me : the life of Georgia governor Marvin Griffin / Scott E. Buchanan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8265-1759-3 (cloth edition : alk. paper) 1. Griffin, Marvin, 1907–1982. 2. Governors—Georgia— Biography. 3. Georgia—Politics and government—1951– I. Title. F291.3.G75B83 2011 975.8'043092—dc22 [B] 2010036851 To Kelea, Genie Grace, and Mary Claire In memory of Marie Ammons Buchanan (1941–2008) ...