Nathan Deal Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

John Nathan Deal is an American politician presently serving as the 82nd Governor of Georgia since January 2011. A graduate and law degree holder from the Mercer University in Macon, Deal served the U.S. Army for a couple of years as Captain at Fort Gordon in Augusta before embarking into private practice as attorney in Gainesville.

He was inducted as assistant district attorney in 1970 in northeast Georgia followed by a judicial appointment as juvenile court judge in Hall County in the next year, a position he served till 1972. Entering politics he first served as Member of the Georgia Senate from the 49th district from 1981 to 1993 as a Democrat. He became Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia’s 9th congressional district in January 1993 as a Democrat, however changed his affiliation to the Republican Party in April 1995.

He served a total of 9 terms in the U.S. Congress and in this tenure that spanned 17 years he rose to chair the Health Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce. In August 2010 he became the Republican nominee for that year’s gubernatorial election in Georgia and in November 2010 he won the election conforming yet again the state-wide trend of support for the Republican Party. He assumed office as Governor of Georgia on January 10, 2011, succeeding Sonny Perdue. A re-election in 2014 fetched the same result for Deal who continues with his efforts towards the betterment of the state and its people.