Introduction

»1963: Overcoming
Voting Fraud

1963-1966:
State Senator

1966: Run for
Governor

1966-1970: Elected
Governor of Georgia

1970-1976: Building
the "New South"

1974: Run for the
Presidency

This Carter family scrapbook records Jimmy’s fight to expose the Quitman County voting scandal in the 1963 senatorial campaign, which temporarily denied him victory. With the help of friends, Carter proved the ballot box had been stuffed, forced a new election and won.

“In 1964 our General Assembly passed a comprehensive new Election Code, primarily as a result of the highly publicized Quitman County scandals in my Senate race.”
  -- Jimmy Carter, Why Not the Best?
 

	1963 Senatorial Campaign Poster (enlarge)
	Family scrapbook with clippings from the 1963 Senate Campaign (enlarge)

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