Gleaning Facebook: Took by Tuck

My friend the late Audley Tucker was the official photographer for the Georgia Democratic Party for several years. He was also a friend of several well-known Georgia politicos, especially Ernest Vandiver and Jimmy Carter. He was a Carter delegate to the National Convention, among other honors. When we were publishing Out & About Georgia's Rome in the eighties and nineties, we did a feature one time on Audley that we headlined: "Took by Tuck". Here are six photos Audley let us use in that issue.

During the 1970 campaign a young Sam Nunn supported
Geoegia State Senator Jimmy Carter for Governor.

This parade down Peachtree Street on Independence Day in 1970 passed the famous Lowes Grand. A very young Hamilton Jordan is sitting in the middle at the front of the float.  Audley did not take this picture. That is Audley driving the Jeep.

Carter was inaugurated Governor of Georgia in 1971 at the Georgia capitol. Many well-known folks in this picture, even a Sam Nunn lurking in the shadows near the left bunting.

Amy Carter was only three when her dad ran for governor the second time in 1970. Audley caught little Amy playing with a mirror and her mother's purse at the Quality Court Hotel in Atlanta, the Carter Campaign headquarters.

Jimmy Carter and Lester Maddox had fought to a virtual tie for second in the 1966 gubernatorial primary, but Lester got into the runoff and prevailed over Ellis Arnall (for whom I campaigned that year), and thanks to the General Assembly Lester was made governor after finishing second to the Republican Bo Calloway in the General Election. But in 1970, Carter was elected Governor and Maddox, term-limited as governor, ran for, and was elected Lt. Governor. In celebration, Carter affixed a peanut necklace around the Lt. Gov.-elect's neck. 

The new Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, spoke at the burial of Senator Richard Russell in Winder, Georgia, on the grounds of the Russell homeplace.