<page_title> List of Governors of Georgia </page_title> <section_title> Governors </section_title> <table> <cell> Melvin E. Thompson <col_header> Election </col_header> <row_header> Eugene Talmadge </row_header> </cell> <cell> Melvin E. Thompson <col_header> Governor </col_header> <col_header> John Houstoun </col_header> <col_header> Vacant </col_header> <col_header> Richard Howly </col_header> <col_header> Nathan Brownson </col_header> <col_header> John Martin </col_header> <col_header> John Houstoun </col_header> <col_header> Edward Telfair </col_header> <col_header> George Handley </col_header> <col_header> Edward Telfair </col_header> <col_header> David Emanuel </col_header> <col_header> Josiah Tattnall </col_header> <col_header> William Rabun </col_header> <col_header> Ellis Arnall </col_header> </cell> <cell> March 18, 1947 – November 17, 1948 (lost election) <col_header> Governor </col_header> <col_header> Button Gwinnett </col_header> <col_header> John A. Treutlen </col_header> <col_header> Vacant </col_header> <col_header> George Walton </col_header> <col_header> Stephen Heard </col_header> <col_header> Lyman Hall </col_header> <col_header> Samuel Elbert </col_header> <col_header> George Mathews </col_header> <col_header> George Mathews </col_header> <col_header> Jared Irwin </col_header> <col_header> James Jackson </col_header> <col_header> John Milledge </col_header> <col_header> Jared Irwin </col_header> <col_header> David Brydie Mitchell </col_header> <col_header> Peter Early </col_header> <col_header> David Brydie Mitchell </col_header> <col_header> Matthew Talbot </col_header> <col_header> John Clark </col_header> <col_header> George Troup </col_header> <col_header> John Forsyth </col_header> <col_header> George Rockingham Gilmer </col_header> <col_header> William Schley </col_header> <col_header> Joseph E. Brown </col_header> <col_header> James Johnson </col_header> <col_header> Charles J. Jenkins </col_header> <col_header> Benjamin F. Conley </col_header> <col_header> Alfred H. Colquitt </col_header> <col_header> Alexander H. Stephens </col_header> <col_header> James S. Boynton </col_header> <col_header> Henry Dickerson McDaniel </col_header> <col_header> John Brown Gordon </col_header> <col_header> William J. Northen </col_header> <col_header> William Yates Atkinson </col_header> <col_header> Allen D. Candler </col_header> <col_header> Joseph M. Terrell </col_header> <col_header> M. Hoke Smith </col_header> <col_header> Joseph Mackey Brown </col_header> <col_header> M. Hoke Smith </col_header> <col_header> John M. Slaton </col_header> <col_header> Joseph Mackey Brown </col_header> <col_header> John M. Slaton </col_header> <col_header> Nathaniel Edwin Harris </col_header> <col_header> Hugh Dorsey </col_header> <col_header> Thomas W. Hardwick </col_header> <col_header> Clifford Walker </col_header> <col_header> Lamartine Griffin Hardman </col_header> <col_header> Richard Russell Jr. </col_header> <col_header> Eugene Talmadge </col_header> <col_header> Eurith D. Rivers </col_header> <col_header> Eugene Talmadge </col_header> <col_header> Eugene Talmadge </col_header> <col_header> Herman Talmadge </col_header> <row_header> Melvin E. Thompson </row_header> </cell> </table>
M.E. Thompson served as the Governor of Georgia from 1947 to 1948 and the first lieutenant governor of Georgia.