Famous People from
Taliaferro County, Georgia including Lloyd D Brown, Alexander
H. Stephens, Ralph Hollis, Willie Asbury and Johnny Griffith
Lloyd D Brown
was born in Sharon, Georgia in Taliaferro County
on July 28, 1892. During World War I he served
in France as commander of Company G, 61st
Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. He was
a United States Army Major General who commanded
the 28th Infantry Division in World War II.
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Alexander H. Stephens was
an American politician from Georgia and Vice
President of the Confederacy
during the Civil War. He was born on
February 11, 1812 and raised on a farm near
present-day Crawfordville, Taliaferro County,
Georgia. At the time of his birth, the farm was
part of Wilkes County. Taliaferro County was
created in 1825 from land in Greene, Hancock,
Oglethorpe, Warren, and Wilkes counties.
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Ralph Hollis
was born September 10, 1906 in Crawfordville,
Georgia. He served as an Ensign in the
United States Naval Reserve on battleship USS
Arizona (BB-39) where he was killed during the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December
1941. In 1943, the destroyer escort USS Hollis
(DE-794) was named in honor of Ens. Hollis.
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Willie Asbury was
born February 22, 1943, in Crawfordville,
Taliaferro County Georgia. He is a former
professional football running back in the
National Football League who played for the
Pittsburgh Steelers from 1966 to1968.
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Johnny Griffith was
an American football player and coach. He served
as the head coach at South Georgia College
(1950–1954) and the University of Georgia
Bulldogs from 1961 to 1963. He was born in Crawfordville, Georgia
in 1924 and died in Duluth, Georgia April 28,
2003.
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