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  Wood, Jim
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NameJim Wood
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Forest Park, Georgia , United States
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Sep 17, 2017 01:00am
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InfoJim Wood, the firm's founder, has a media career spanning 50 years of work experience in Georgia, 40 of which have been spent as a publisher and president in his own profitable company.

His professional career began in 1948, and includes experience as a publisher of the weekly Fayette County News, founder and publisher of the News Daily, the Atlanta Downtown News, ATL (the Atlanta Airport Trade Paper) and publisher of similar papers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston and Denver.

He has won state and national awards for news and editorial writing, and is past president of the Georgia Press Association; more importantly, he has launched many outstanding journalists and practitioners into media careers.

Jim Wood also offers clients a wide range of political experience. After serving in the Georgia House of Representatives for three terms between 1976 and 1982, he became the Demo-cratic nominee for Georgia's U.S. 6th Congressional District. Jim is an active Rotarian and a past-president of the Rotary Club of Clayton County. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Clayton College and State University.

Jim is an annual supporter of the Alabama Alumni Association, and served as a past-president of the Atlanta Chapter the year it was selected as the top out-of-state chapter by the University of Alabama National Alumni Association.




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  11/02/1982 GA District 06 Lost 44.73% (-10.54%)
  11/04/1980 GA State House 072 P3 Won 57.94% (+15.88%)
  11/07/1978 GA State House 072 P3 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  08/08/1978 GA State House 072 P3 - D Primary Won 57.96% (+15.92%)
  11/02/1976 GA State House 072 P3 Won 67.80% (+43.64%)
  08/31/1976 GA State House 072 P3 - D Runoff Won 54.58% (+9.17%)
  08/10/1976 GA State House 072 P3 - D Primary Won 43.46% (+20.89%)
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