Governor Hugh M. Dorsey
Hugh Manson Dorsey was born in Fayetteville , and was admitted to the Georgia bar at the Fayette County Courthouse in 1894. After practicing law at his father´s firm, Dorsey became solicitor general of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit in 1910. In this capacity, he prosecuted the 1913 murder case against Leo Frank. During his two-term governorship (1917-1921), Dorsey oversaw the wider implementation of the county unit system of election favoring rural areas; appointed Richard R. Wright, Sr. to direct Georgia´s African-American war effort during WWI; and published a pamphlet opposing the unjust treatment of African Americans in Georgia. Hugh Dorsey is buried in Atlanta´s Westview Cemetery.
2006 Erected by Georgia Historical Society, the Fayette County Historical Society, the Fayette Heritage Project, Fayetteville Main Street and the Fayetteville Development Department. 56-3
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
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Photo credit: Georgia Historical Society.