What is Mack Mattingly?
[[File:MackMattingly.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mattingly in the 1980s]] '''Mack Francis Mattingly''' (born January 7, 1931) served one term as a [[United States Senate|United States senator]] from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. He was the first [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state since [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]]. Mattingly was born in [[Anderson, Indiana|Anderson]], [[Indiana]]. He studied at [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]]. In 1980, Mattingly unseated longtime [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[Herman Talmadge]], which was seen as an historic political upset.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Minchin|first1=Timothy J.|title='An Historic Upset': Herman Talmadge's 1980 Senate Defeat and the End of a Political Dynasty|journal=Georgia Historical Quarterly|date=2015|volume=99|issue=3|pages=156–197|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=111013094&site=eds-live|access-date=2 November 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mattingly, Mack}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:United States senators from Georgia]] [[Category:Republican Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Politicians from Indiana]] [[Category:People from Anderson, Indiana]] {{US-bio-stub}}