Editing Elberton, Georgia (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Brent Adams]], [[NFL]] [[offensive lineman]] for [[Atlanta Falcons]] and [[Los Angeles Rams]]
* [[Amos T. Akerman]], [[U.S. Attorney General]] under [[Ulysses S. Grant]], fought railroad corruption and the [[Ku Klux Klan]]
* [[William Wyatt Bibb]], appointed first [[governor of Alabama]], [[U.S. senator]], 1813–1816
* [[Paul Brown (Georgia politician)|Paul Brown]], 14-term U.S. congressman, 1933–1961
* [[Clark Gaines]], [[NFL]] [[running back]] for [[New York Jets]]
* [[George Rockingham Gilmer]], two-term [[governor of Georgia]], U.S. congressman
* [[Derek Harper]], [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]] and 16-year [[NBA]] [[point guard]]
* [[Corra May Harris]], early 20th century author, lived at Farm Hill
* [[Nancy Hart]], [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] heroine
* [[Stephen Heard]], [[governor of Georgia]], 1780–1781
* [[William H. Heard (ambassador)|William H. Heard]], former slave, clergyman and U.S. ambassador to [[Liberia]]
* [[Joseph Rucker Lamar]], former [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] justice
* [[Meriwether Lewis]], of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]], lived in Elbert County
* [[Juanita Marsh]], third female judge in Georgia, 2020 [[Georgia Women of Achievement]] inductee<ref name="gwa-2020">{{cite web |title=Juanita Marsh |url=https://www.georgiawomen.org/marsh-juanita |website=Georgia Women of Achievement |access-date=31 January 2020 |archive-date=January 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131062508/https://www.georgiawomen.org/marsh-juanita |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Arnall Patz]], discovered cause of blindness in premature infants and helped develop laser treatment of diabetic retinopathy<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-09-06|title=Hall of Fame: Arnall Patz, MD|url=http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/bios/patz.html|access-date=2020-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120906011055/http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/bios/patz.html|archive-date=September 6, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Charles Tait (politician)|Charles Tait]], [[U.S. senator]], 1809–1819
* [[Wiley Thompson]], U.S. congressman and Indian agent, oversaw removal of [[Seminole]]s from Florida ([[Second Seminole War]])
* [[Daniel Tucker (minister)|Daniel Tucker]], preacher, possible subject of "[[Old Dan Tucker]]" song
* [[Chester Willis]], former [[National Football League|NFL]] [[halfback (American football)|halfback]]