From left to right: local
attorney and Lions Club member T. J. Espy, Jr.; Lions Club member W.P.
"Bill" Selman; former Governor Ellis Arnall; and Roger McDonald, former
pastor of Summerville First Baptist Church who was now pastor at
Central Baptist Church in Newnan where Mr. Arnall was a member.
Despite
an impressive list of accomplishments while governing Georgia from 1943
to 1947, Arnall lost to Lester Maddox in the Democratic runoff. He died
in 1992.
Photograph by T. Emmett Nunn. Courtesy of Chattooga County Library. This photograph and caption appeared in the February 17, 1966 edition of the Summerville News.