ATLANTA – Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died Sunday. He was 76.
Johnny Isakson, former Georgia Republican U.S. senator, dies
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