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...Georgia, Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers dug out a "full faith and credit" Federal statute which he hopes requires other States to return Georgia's duly requisitioned criminals. To Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley Governor Rivers wrote again to recapture escaped Negro James Cunningham whose extradition was recently refused because of a "sense of humanity." Fed up with such melodramatic refusals of extradition as that by New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in 1932 in the case of Robert Elliott Moore (I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang), Georgia prepared for a legal roundup...
Swept to defeat with Gene Talmadge was his entire slate of State candidates, including the man he had picked to succeed him as Governor, President of the State Senate Charles D. Redwine. Winner for that office was the Speaker of the State House of Representatives, Eurith Dickinson Rivers...