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Benjamin W. Fortson, Jr.
Benjamin Wynn Fortson Jr. was a Secretary of State of Georgia. After being selected by Ellis Arnall, the governor in 1946, Fortson kept his title as Secretary until 1979, making him the longest running Secretary in Georgia History.〔Associated Press. () 20 May 1979, Domestic News sec. Lexis Nexis. Web. 17 February 2011. .〕
==Background==
Benjamin Wynn Fortson Jr. was born in 1904 in Wilkes County, Georgia. At twenty-four, he was in a car accident that permanently paralyzed him from the waist down. He was elected to the state senate in 1938 and served until he was appointed secretary of state by Governor Ellis Arnall in February 1946 to fill the unexpired term of John B. Wilson. Fortson was elected in the next election and every four years thereafter.
He was serving his ninth term at the time of his death on May 19, 1979, in Atlanta, Georgia. After funeral services in the rotunda of the State Capitol, he was buried in Wilkes County in Rest Haven Cemetery.
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