Peter Zack Geer

Peter Zack Geer ( born August 24, 1928 in Colquitt, Miller County, Georgia, † January 5, 1997 ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1966 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Georgia.

Career

About the youth and education of Peter Geer nothing is handed down. After a law degree from the Walter F. George School of Law and Mercer University in Macon and his 1951 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. He was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Georgia. In 1962 he was elected to the side of Carl Sanders as the new Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. This office he held until 1967. In January 1967, he had the last official act to chair the state Legislature, which then had to decide on the disputed outcome of the gubernatorial election. Yet his party colleague Lester Maddox was elected governor with the support Geers.

After the end of his term as Lieutenant Governor Geer again practiced as a lawyer. In 1973 he was appointed special prosecutor. He had the task of four men accusing her of six counts of murder. The process was then well over Georgia beyond the headlines. Three of the defendants were sentenced to death, the sentence was later commuted. Peter Geer died on 5 Jan 1997 in his birthplace of Colquitt.