George Dekle Busbee (August 7, 1927 – July 16, 2004) was an American politician who served as the 77th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1975 to 1983.

Busbee was born in Vienna, Georgia, and attended Georgia Military College and Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College before joining the Navy. After his discharge, he completed his education at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Phi Kappa Literary Society, having procured a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a law degree in 1952.

Establishing a law practice in Albany, Busbee served nine terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and was floor leader for Governor Carl Sanders. In 1967, Busbee was one of thirty Democrats in the legislature who voted for the Republican Howard Callaway in the disputed 1966 gubernatorial race, rather than the Democratic nominee Lester Maddox, a segregationist from Atlanta. The legislature, acting under the 1824 Georgia Constitution, upheld by the United States Supreme Court, chose Maddox 182 to 66.

busbee is an American songwriter, record producer and musician from the San Francisco Bay area.

busbee was born in Walnut Creek, California. His first music making experiences began with the piano at age 7. In high school he studied jazz while predominately focusing on trombone. busbee freelanced as a trombone player in and around New York City and San Francisco recording for multiple artists including Smash Mouth. He eventually moved to Los Angeles to work for Eric Valentine. After a year with Valentine, he briefly worked for Rhett Lawrence and then began freelancing. In 2007 he signed a publishing deal with Dann Huff and Darrell Franklin.

Busbee has worked with a wide range of artists including Mercury, Timbaland,Keith Urban, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Rascal Flatts,Daughtry, Lady Antebellum,Alexandra Burke,Flo Rida, Adam Lambert, Jason Aldean, Kid Cudi, Chris Daughtry, Toni Braxton, Blake Shelton, Backstreet Boys, Jessica Sutta (Pussy Cat Dolls), Hunter Hayes, Better Than Ezra, Shifty Shellshock (Crazy Town), All Star Weekend, Liz Phair, Switchfoot, Westlife, Elliott Yamin, Smash Mouth, Katharine McPhee, Danny Gokey, Project 86, Mitchell Musso, Glen Phillips, My Favorite Highway, Tata Young, Rosie Thomas, Jaymes Reunion, Victoria Beckham, Mel C, Anastacia, Haley Reinhart, Dima Bilan, Lee DeWyze and Giorgia Todrani.

Carl Edward Sanders, Sr. (born May 15, 1925), is an American politician who served as the 74th Governor of the state of Georgia from 1963 to 1967.

Sanders was born in Augusta in Richmond County in eastern Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia at Athens on a football scholarship. A backup, left-handed quarterback, Sanders received little playing time, which prompted coach Wally Butts to recount years later, "Carl, if I had known you were going to be governor, I'd have played you more." He was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity, Order of the Greek Horsemen, Gridiron Secret Society and the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He left to fight in World War II, enlisting in the United States Army Air Corps in 1943 and became a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot. After the war, he returned to complete his bachelor's and law degrees.

In 1954, Sanders won a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives. In 1956, he was elected to the Georgia Senate and served two years as president pro tempore of the chamber.

Clarence Saxby Chambliss, Jr. (born November 10, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Georgia. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative (1995–2003).

During his four terms in the House, Chambliss served on the United States House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and chaired the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which oversaw investigations of the intelligence community after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

During his 2002 bid for the U.S. Senate, Chambliss focused on the issue of national defense and homeland security. He won with 53% of the vote. For several years he was the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and chaired the committee during the 109th Congress (2005–2007). In the 112th Congress (2011–2012) he is the ranking Republican on the Select Committee on Intelligence. Chambliss has a conservative voting record in the Senate, but he has participated in some bipartisan legislation. In December 2011, the Washington Post named Saxby and the "Gang of Six" as one of the Best Leaders of 2011 for attempts to craft a bipartisan deficit reduction package.

Thomas Bertram (Bert) Lance (born June 3, 1931) is an American businessman, who was Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter. He is known mainly for his resignation from President Jimmy Carter's administration due to scandal in 1977.

Lance was born in Gainesville, Georgia and has lived in Gordon County (Calhoun), Georgia. His father, Thomas Jackson Lance, had served as president of Young Harris College. In 1941, the family relocated to Calhoun in Gordon County when Lance's father became superintendent of the Calhoun schools. Lance graduated from the University of Georgia in 1951 and was also initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity at the Delta Chapter. He later did graduate studies at LSU in Baton Rouge, and at Rutgers. While attending college he married LaBelle David, whose family owned the Calhoun First National Bank. After graduation, Lance became employed by the bank as a clerk and within a decade became its president. He later served as president of National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta from 1975 to 1977.