Brian Kemp
Brian Porter Kemp is an American politician serving since January 2019 as the 83rd governor of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party, Kemp served as the 27th secretary of state of Georgia from 2010 to 2018, and as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2007.
Some of the key events about Brian Kemp
- 1994Established Kemp Development and Construction Company
- 2002Elected to the Georgia State Senate
- 2006Appointed as Georgia's Secretary of State
- 2010Implemented Georgia's voter identification law
- 2010Faced allegations of improper campaign contributions during his run for Georgia Secretary of State
- 2014Launched the "SEC Primary" initiative to increase Georgia's influence in presidential primaries
- 2014Accused of failing to process 40,000 voter registration applications as Secretary of State
- 2015Created the Student Ambassador Program to promote civic engagement among high school students
- 2015Oversaw a data breach that exposed personal information of 6 million Georgia voters
- 2016Rejected a federal offer to help secure Georgia's voting systems against potential hacking
- 2017Purged over 500,000 voter registrations from Georgia's voter rolls
- 2018Elected as Governor of Georgia
- 2018Refused to recuse himself from overseeing the gubernatorial election in which he was a candidate
- 2018Accused of voter suppression tactics during his gubernatorial campaign
- 2019Signed the "heartbeat bill" restricting abortion in Georgia
- 2019Signed a controversial "heartbeat" abortion bill into law, banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy
- 2020Reopened Georgia's economy early during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020Faced criticism for reopening Georgia's economy early during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2021Signed a restrictive voting law that critics argued would disproportionately affect minority voters
- 2022Re-elected as Governor of Georgia, defeating Stacey Abrams for a second time
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