University of Georgia
 University of Georgia  (University)    | |
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| Motto | Latin: Et docere et rerum exquirere causas |
| Formation | 1785 |
| Headquarters | Georgia (state) |
| Type | • Flagship • Public • research •  university• Land-grant university • Regional • Sun Grant university • National Sea Grant university • National Space Grant university |
| Other name | Bulldogs & Lady Bulldogs |
| The oldest public university in the United States. Public Ivy. | |
Located in Athens, Georgia, the ' University of Georgia is the oldest public university in the United States. There are about 34,000 students and 2,794 lecturers at the university. It has an annual budget of around 1.2 billion US dollars and is spread over a total of 327 buildings. The university is one of the best state universities in the USA (Public Ivy). Since 1931 it has been part of the University System of Georgia, administered by a Board of Regents.
The university shapes the city of Athens both culturally and politically.
The University of Georgia has distinguished alumni and attendees including current and former members of the United States Senate, members of the United States House of Representatives, a member of the Supreme Court of the United States, members of the Cabinet of the United States, U.S. ambassadors, U.S. governors, federal judges, state supreme court justices, attorneys general, members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, chairmen and chief executive officers (CEOs) of Fortune 500 companies, banks, and charitable organizations, plus many scholars including Rhodes Scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Boren Scholars, and MacArthur Fellows, as well as Pulitzer Prize winners, a United States Poet Laureate, Peabody Award winners, The New York Times Best Seller list authors, Emmy Award winners, Grammy Award winners, inventors and entrepreneurs, prominent attorneys, medical doctors, scientists and academics.
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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| William Tapley Bennett | 1 April 1917 | 29 November 1994 | US | Diplomat Spook | Spooky US diplomat who worked mostly in Latin America. |
| Eugene Black | 1 May 1898 | 20 February 1992 | US | Central banker | Attended the Bilderberg/1957 February as President of the World Bank Group |
| Marjorie Taylor Greene | 27 May 1974 | Politician | Republican politician from Georgia. | ||
| Robert Lipshutz | 27 December 1921 | 6 November 2010 | Lawyer | ||
| Bjørn Lomborg | 6 January 1965 | Denmark | Academic Climate change/Dissident? | WEF YGL, WEF GLT. President of the Gates-funded think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center, which publishes glowing estimates of the efficiency of the Gates foundation. | |
| Sonny Perdue | 20 December 1946 | Politician | |||
| Ralph Reed | 24 June 1961 | US | Activist Lobbyist | "Preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right" | |
| William Roebuck | US | Diplomat | |||
| Charles Sanford | 8 October 1936 | 4 September 2018 | US | Banker Businessperson | American bankster who attended the 1988 Bilderberg conference as chairman and CEO of Bankers Trust Company, where he introduced "innovative" financial instruments. Retired after tapes of "fleecing customers" and losses from financial speculation emerged. |
| Nancy Schaefer | 28 June 1936 | 26 March 2010 | US | Activist Politician | Activist politician and author of report on "The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services" found dead, together with her husband of 52 years, declared to be a murder-suicide |
| Sally Yates | 20 August 1960 | Lawyer | United States Attorney General for 10 days after the inauguration of Donald Trump. |
