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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]