- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Elena and John Amos
- Date of Original:
- 1989
- Subject:
- Businessmen--Georgia--Columbus
Businesspeople--Georgia--Columbus
Executives--Georgia--Columbus
Insurance--Georgia--Columbus
Insurance executives--Georgia--Columbus
Philanthropists--Georgia--Columbus
AFLAC Incorporated
Civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus
Lawyers--Georgia--Columbus
Cake--Georgia--Columbus
Birthday cakes--Georgia--Columbus
Birthday parties--Georgia--Columbus
Women civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus
Men--Georgia--Columbus
Women--Georgia--Columbus
Amos, John Beverly, 1924-1990
Díaz-Versón Amos, Elena
Diaz-Verson Amos, Elena - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1989 John Amos, a prominent member of the Columbus business community, celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday with the help of his wife, Elena Diaz-Verson Amos. Five years earlier, the couple successfully campaigned to bring the U.S. Army's School of the Americas to Fort Benning, and they were also active in promoting Latin American studies in Georgia.
Photograph of John Amos, a prominent member of the Columbus, Georgia business community, celebrating his sixty-fifth birthday. His wife, Elena Díaz-Versón Amos, stands next to him. They lean over a large birthday cake and blow on the candles.
Amos was a lawyer, businessman, and civic leader who in 1955 founded the American Family Life Assurance Company (now known as Aflac) in Columbus, Georgia with his brothers William and Paul. Amos made significant contributions in the business, political, and philanthropic arenas of Columbus. In addition to Aflac, Amos founded a television network, the American Family Broadcast Group, and was an active member of the Democratic party at both the local and national levels. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/john-amos-1924-1990/m-9334/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Aflac
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/john-amos-1924-1990
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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