Mack Mattingly
| Mack Francis Mattingly | |
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United States Senator from Georgia |
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In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Herman E. Talmadge |
| Succeeded by | W. Wyche Fowler, Jr. |
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In office September 22, 1992 – March 1, 1993 |
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| Appointed by | George H.W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Dick Carlson |
| Succeeded by | Carl Stokes |
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January 7, 1931 Anderson, Indiana |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | (1) Carolyn Mattingly, 1957–1997 (2) Leslie Davisson Mattingly, 1998–present |
| Children | Jane, Anne |
| Alma mater | Indiana University |
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 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Air Force
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| Years of service | 1951-1955 |
| Unit | Hunter Army Air Field |
Mack Francis Mattingly (born January 7, 1931) served one term as a United States senator from Georgia, the first Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state since Reconstruction.
Mattingly was born in Anderson, Indiana, on January 7, 1931. He served four years in the United States Air Force and was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1950s. In 1957, he earned a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Indiana University. Afterward, he worked for twenty years for IBM Corporation in Georgia and later operated his own business, M's Inc., which sold office supplies and equipment in Brunswick, Georgia.
Mattingly first became active in the Georgia Republican Party when he served as chairman of 8th District Goldwater for President in 1964. He would become an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives against W. S. Stuckey, Jr. in 1966. By 1968 he became a member of the Georgia Republican Party State Executive Committee and served as party vice-chair from 1968 until 1975. In 1975, he became chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, a position he held until 1977.
In 1980, Mattingly unseated longtime Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge, twelve years after Talmadge had defeated E. Earl Patton of Atlanta, the first of the three Republicans who ran against him. Mattingly served in the Senate from January 1981 until January 1987, with membership on the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, chairing first the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch and later the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. Mattingly also served at various times on the Senate Banking Committee, the Governmental Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and the Ethics Committee. He is perhaps best remembered as a proponent of the line-item veto, a position that earned him recognition by President Ronald Reagan during his 1985 State of the Union Address.
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