Peter Zack Geer

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Peter Zack Geer (August 24, 1928 – January 5, 1997) was a Democratic politician from Georgia.

Geer was born in Colquitt, Miller County, Georgia. He graduated from Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law in 1951 and was a prominent attorney.^[1] Geer served as 5th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia from 1963 to 1967 under fellow Democrat, Governor Carl Sanders.

After leaving office, Geer returned to the practice of law. In 1973, he prosecuted four men accused of slaying six Alday family members in Seminole County, Georgia.^[2] Geer obtained convictions and death sentences for the three principal defendants, although the convictions were later overturned due to pre-trial publicity which was held to have unduly prejudiced the jury. President Jimmy Carter, then Governor of Georgia, called the mass murder "the most heinous in Georgia history".^[3]

Geer died on cancer and was buried in the city cemetery in his native Colquitt.

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• Brief Political Graveyard profile
• Peter Zack Geer at Find a Grave

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