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Lester Garfield Maddox
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75th Governor of Georgia
In office
January 11, 1967 January 12, 1971
Lieutenant George T. Smith
Preceded by Carl Sanders
Succeeded by Jimmy Carter
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7th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
In office
January 12, 1971 January 18, 1975
Governor Jimmy Carter
Preceded by George T. Smith
Succeeded by Zell Miller
Lester Garfield Maddox (September 30, 1915 June 25, 2003) was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
A popular and populist governor, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist and maintained, to his death, that he never had any regrets.[1]