United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Patton, Randall L., 1958-2006-09-15Encyclopedia article about E. D. Rivers. E. D. ("Ed") Rivers served consecutive two-year terms as Georgia's governor (elected in 1936 and reelected in 1938). In his first term, Rivers brought a "Little New Deal" to Georgia and presided over a significant expansion of state services. By the end of his second term, Rivers and his administration were awash in charges of corruption. Rivers gained the governorship initially as the anti-Talmadge, pro-New Deal candidate. Yet he used many of the same heavy-handed tactics that his predecessor had made infamous, including the use of the National Guard to resolve political disputes with state agencies. Even when Rivers attempted to return to the governor's office in 1946, his candidacy served mainly to tilt the race toward Eugene Talmadge.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Legislators--GeorgiaGovernors--GeorgiaPoliticians--GeorgiaBusinessmen--GeorgiaBusinesspeople--GeorgiaRivers, Eurith Dickinson, 1895-1967E. D. Rivers (1895-1967)Text