<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Crawford, Tom</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-11</dc:date><dc:description>Encyclopedia article about Tom Buck. Tom Buck is a longtime Columbus lawyer and civic leader who served for thirty-eight years in the Georgia House of Representatives, one of the longest tenures of any lawmaker in the state's history. Buck was a highly effective advocate for Columbus and west Georgia because of his position in the legislative leadership.</dc:description><dc:format>text/html</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:relation>Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.</dc:source><dc:subject>Buck, Tom, 1938-</dc:subject><dc:subject>Legislators--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Politicians--Georgia--Columbus</dc:subject><dc:subject>Lawyers--Georgia--Columbus</dc:subject><dc:subject>Georgia. General Assembly. House of Representatives</dc:subject><dc:subject>Civic leaders--Georgia--Columbus</dc:subject><dc:title>Tom Buck (b. 1938)</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>