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Three Governors Controversy - The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official. The first full-length examination of that episode is in the form of a book titled The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics authored by Charles Bullock, Professor of Political Science at UGA, Scott Buchanan, Associate Professor of Political Science at The Citadel and Ronald Keith Gaddie, Chairman of the Department of Political Science at The University of Oklahoma. Charles Bullock is the guest.