The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Floyd Griffin

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Floyd Griffin

3/20/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.030

Colonel, mayor, and state senator The Honorable Floyd Griffin (1944 - ) was the first African American mayor of Milledgeville, Georgia as well as a former Georgia State Senator. Griffin also served twenty-three years in the military as a helicopter pilot and flight instructor in Vietnam, commander at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and at the Pentagon. He also taught military science at Wake Forest University. Griffin was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/20/2002, in Milledgeville, Georgia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 31m 35s

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Griffin, Floyd, 1944-

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Floyd Griffin, retired United States Army Colonel, former Georgia State Senator and current Mayor of Milledgeville, Georgia was born May 24, 1944, in Milledgeville. Griffin holds an A. S. degree in funeral service from Grupton Jones College, a B. S. in building construction from Tuskegee Institute and a Masters degree in contract procurement and management from the Florida Institute of Technology. He is also a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College.Gr...