E. D. Rivers

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E. D. Rivers was elected governor of Georgia in 1936 as an avid supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection.

E. D. Rivers

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