famous georgians bottle buddy or biography hanger project

Famous Georgians Bottle Buddy or Biography Hanger Project

Hank Aaron

Considered one of the best baseball players of all time, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home-run record when he hit his 715th home run in 1974. He later set a new MLB record with 755 career home runs.

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas is the second African-American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed in 1991 and leans conservative.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/justice-clarence-thomas-faith-race-court-colleagues-17229878

Ray Charles

Ray Charles was a pioneer of soul music, integrating R&B, gospel, pop and country to creat hits like "Unchain My Heart," "Hit the Road Jack" and "Georgia on My Mind." A blind genius, he is considered one of the greatest artists of all time.

Tiger Flowers

Tiger Flowers was the first African-American to become a world middleweight champion. Born in Georgia, Flowers began fighting in 1918, when he was working in a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant. He started his professional boxing career at the age of 23, much later than most who plan to reach the top.

Otis Redding

Known as the voice of soul music, Otis Redding died in a plane crash at 26 years old. His song "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" hit No. 1 in 1968.

Herschel Walker

Herschel Junior Walker is a former college and professional football player, bobsledder, sprinter and mixed martial artist.

Hosea Williams

Hosea Williams was Martin Luther King Jr.'s trusted officer of the SCLC during the Civil Rights Movement, and later led Georgia's biggest civil rights march.

Precious Bryant

Precious Bryant was an American country blues, gospel, and folk musician.

Gladys Knight

Singer Gladys Knight has given voice to multiple R&B hits (with and without her Pips), including "Midnight Train to Georgia."

Juliette Gordon Low

Juliette Gordon Low is the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

Moonshine Kate

Moonshine Kate was an American country banjoist, guitarist and singer.

Truett Cathy

Samuel Truett Cathy, better known as S. Truett Cathy, was an American entrepreneur who founded Chick-fil-A.

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

Jason Aldean

Jason Aldine Williams, known professionally as Jason Aldean, is an American country music singer.

Joel Chandler Harris

Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories.

Doc Holliday

John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American gambler, gunfighter, dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp.

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind.

Jeff Foxworthy

Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio personality, author, and voice artist.

Oliver Hardy

Oliver "Ollie" Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 25 years, from 1927 to 1951.

http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/

Ralph McGill

Ralph Emerson McGill was an American journalist, best known as an anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.

General Lucius Clay

General Lucius Dubignon Clay was an American officer and military governor of the United States Army known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II.

Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and producer.

Dwight Howard

Dwight David Howard is an American professional basketball player who plays for the National Basketball Association.

Wayne Brady

Wayne Alphonso Brady is an American actor, singer, comedian, and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wayne-brady-just-getting-warmed-up/

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Trisha Yearwood

Patricia Lynn "Trisha" Yearwood is an American singer, author, and actress.

Tomochichi

Tomochichi was a seventeenth-century Creek leader and the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present day Savannah, Georgia.

http://www.todayingeorgiahistory.org/content/tomochichi

Ryan Seacrest

Ryan John Seacrest is an American radio personality, television host, and producer.

Champ Bailey

Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr. is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League.