Question

How did eugene talmadge respond to federal new deal programs in georgia?

Answer 1

Georgia was helped perhaps as much as any state by the New Deal, which brought advances in rural electrification, education, health care, housing, and highway construction. The New Deal also had a particularly personal connection to Georgia; Warm Springs was U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's southern White House, where he met and worked with many different Georgians. From the 1920s and throughout the Great Depression, he saw firsthand the poverty and disease from which the state was suffering, and he approached its problems much as a Georgia farmer-politician would. At the same time, the state's conservative politicians, voicing fears that the New Deal would destroy traditional ways of life, fought tooth and nail against what they saw as government meddling in local affairs, and many of Georgia's political battles of the 1930s revolved around opposition to new federal programs

Answer 2

Answer: He initially opposed the new deal program but came back to support it.

Explanation:

Governor Eugene Talmadge initially opposed the new deal and even claimed the Deal had a potential to threaten "Georgia's way of life". He opposed the the New minimum wage and was also against social security for Georgians. At a point he referred to President Roosevelt as a socialist because of the New Deal.