Ultimately, the lieutenant governor-elect, Melvin E. Thompson, the prior Governor, Ellis Arnall, and Herman Talmadge all had themselves sworn in and were concurrently trying to conduct state business from the Georgia State Capitol.
However, the Dixiecrats were weakened when most Southern Democratic leaders (such as Governor Herman Talmadge of Georgia and "Boss" E. H. Crump of Tennessee) refused to support the party.
The group's name was lifted from the title of a newsletter published by Herman Talmadge, Governor of Georgia, with Talmadge's permission.
Herman Melville | Woody Herman | Herman's Hermits | Herman Wouk | Herman Hollerith | Edward S. Herman | Herman Daly | Herman Van Rompuy | Herman Dune | Herman Brood | Herman Willem Daendels | Herman Gorter | Herman Finck | Herman Boerhaave | Herman | Norma Talmadge | Herman Wirth | Herman Rarebell | Herman Kahn | Herman Brusselmans | Pee-Wee Herman | Herman Wallace | Herman van Veen | Herman Talmadge | Herman Moore | Herman L. Taylor, Jr. | Herman Kogan | Herman Joseph Justin | Herman I, Duke of Swabia | Herman Heijermans |
Clients guided by the Joneses included then-senators John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Herman Talmadge and George Smathers through the 1940s and 1950s.