Ronald ‘Bo’ Ginn, 70; Influential Politician in South Georgia
Former U.S. Rep. Ronald “Bo” Ginn, 70, one of south Georgia’s biggest political names of the 1970s and ‘80s, who made an unsuccessful run for governor in 1982, died Thursday of cancer in an Augusta hospital.
Ginn represented Georgia’s 1st Congressional District from 1973 to 1983. In the 1982 Democratic primary for governor, he lost to Joe Frank Harris. Ginn’s conviction for bank fraud about 10 years later ended any thought of a political comeback.
A native of Morgan, Ga., Ginn survived polio as a teenager. He graduated from Georgia Southern College (now Georgia Southern University) in Statesboro. He also worked as a schoolteacher, cattle farmer and administrative assistant to longtime U.S. Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.).
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