Background
MATTINGLY, Mack was born on January 7, 1931 in Anderson, Indiana, United States. Son of Joseph Hilbert and Beatrice Wayts Mattingly.
Diplomat politician United States senator
MATTINGLY, Mack was born on January 7, 1931 in Anderson, Indiana, United States. Son of Joseph Hilbert and Beatrice Wayts Mattingly.
Indiana University Bloomington. Indiana University.
He served four years in the United States Air Force and was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1950s. In 1957, he earned a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Indiana University. Afterward, he worked for twenty years for International Business Machines Corporation Corporation in Georgia and later operated his own business, M"s Incorporated., which sold office supplies and equipment in Brunswick, Georgia.
Mattingly first became active in the Georgia Republican Party when he served as chairman of 8th District Goldwater for President in 1964.
He would become an unsuccessful candidate for the United States. House of Representatives against West. South. Stuckey, Junior. in 1966. In 1975, he became chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, a position he held until 1977.
In 1980, Mattingly unseated longtime Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge, twelve years after Talmadge had defeated East. Earl Patton of Atlanta, the first of the three Republicans who ran against him. Mattingly served in the Senate from January 1981 until January 1987, with membership on the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, chairing first the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch and later the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
Mattingly also served at various times on the Senate Banking Committee, the Governmental Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and the Ethics Committee.
He is perhaps best remembered as a proponent of the line-item veto, a position that earned him recognition by President Ronald Reagan during his 1985 State of the Union Address. In November 1986, Mattingly was defeated in his bid for re-election by former Congressman Wyche Fowler of Atlanta. In 1987, Reagan appointed Mattingly assistant secretary-general for defense support for North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, Belgium.
In 1992, President George H. West. Bush appointed Mattingly ambassador to Seychelles.
He served in this position until 1993. Mattingly ran against Democrat Zell Miller in the 2000 special election to replace the deceased Senator Paul Coverdell, but Miller succeeded in holding the seat to which he had been appointed.
By 1968 he became a member of the Georgia Republican Party State Executive Committee and served as party vice-chair from 1968 until 1975.
Delaware Atl. Sergeant-at-Arms, Republican National Convs., Delaware Georgian Republican Party Convs., 1964-1990. Chairman 8th District Goldwater for President, 1964, Georgia 8th Congressional District, Candidate United States Congress, 8th District, 1966. Member Georgia Republican Party State Control Committee, State Executive Committee, vice chairman state party, 1968-1975, chairman Georgia Republican Party, 1975-1977.
Elected 1st Republican U.s. Senator from Ga.since 1871, 1980. Board directors NOVECON., Cumberland Preservation Society, Marshall Legacy Institute, Southeastern Legal Foundation, CENSUS 2000, Compucredit Corporation, Business Leadership Council.
Honorary member board directors Master of Laws King Jr.Fed. Holiday Commission, Brunswick Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce With United States Air Force, 1951-1955. Member American Legion.
Married Carolyn Longcamp, 1957 (deceased). Children: Jane, Anne. Married Leslie Ann Davisson, 1998.