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| https://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=21fad379-4f3f-4791-b72a-7bdfb2a5141c | Isakson Pays Respect to Former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders | 2014-11-21 | 2014 | 2014-11 | Republican | House | GA | Johnny Isakson | I000055 | www.isakson.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., paid respect to the life and legacy of former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. He delivered the following remarks on the floor of the United States Senate on Thursday, November 20, 2014: “Mr. President, on Sunday night, a great Georgian and a personal friend of mine passed away from this life. “At the age of 89, former Governor Carl Sanders died in Atlanta, Ga., at Piedmont Hospital. Carl Sanders was governor of Georgia from 1963 to 1967. I was at the University of Georgia as a student, from 1962 to 1966, so my college years paralleled his gubernatorial years, where he made a remarkable change in the politics and the life of the people of Georgia. “Everyone remembers what the ‘60’s were like in the South in terms of segregation. Most of the governors in the South, like Governor Wallace in Alabama, were segregationists. But Carl Sanders came forward as a governor – wanted to bring people together, wanted to help to bring Georgia and bring the South, through a turbulent time to see to it that African Americans rose to equality – not just in the way they were recognized, but in the way laws were treated. In fact, it was Carl Sanders who came to Washington in 1964 to meet with Lyndon Johnson and helped form the foundation of the Civil Rights laws that passed later in the 1960’s. “Carl Sanders was born in Augusta, Ga.; went to University of Georgia on a scholarship and played football; left the University to go and fight in World War II, and was a fighter pilot; came back from World War II; graduated from the University of Georgia, and then graduated from the Georgia Law School; practiced law; was elected to the State Legislature then to the State Senate, and then governor of the state of Georgia. “He was governor from ’63 to ‘67; and, back then, the Georgia governors could not succeed one another, so he had to wait four years to run for a second team. He did wait four years and he ran for a second term. He lost, ultimately to the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. But he was never a loser; he was a winner. And everything he did, whether it was government or business or family life or whatever it might be, Carl Sanders excelled. “He was such a wonderful man to share his wisdom and knowledge. About once every six or eight months, he would always have three or four of us over to his office, at the age of 89, treating us to lunch, and talking about the good-old-days, but also talking about the future. Carl Sanders was not about the past, except for the memories. He was about the future – for its hope and its prosperity for people. “Carl Sanders will be remembered for a lot of things; but in Georgia, most importantly, he’ll be remembered for what became, at first, a Junior College System, which is now a four-year College System, which has every Georgia citizen within 45-minute drive of a University System of Georgia facility. His passion as governor was education. His legacy in Georgia will be education. “He contributed greatly to our state and greatly to the future and the prosperity of the people of the state of Georgia. It is with a great sense of sadness, but a great sense of pride that I pay tribute today on the floor of the United States Senate to a great governor of Georgia, a great citizen of our country, and a great American: the honorable Carl Sanders, former Governor of the state of Georgia.” Senator Isakson’s full remarks can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qURdxEft9KA&feature=youtu.be. # # # | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |