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Crawford: Sanders is a man for his time
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The death of former Gov. Carl Sanders is a reminder of how much the times and the state he ran during the 1960s have changed. As soon as he took office in 1963 at age 37, Sanders began the hard work of transforming Georgia from a sleepy backwater, held back by decades of county unit politics, into a leader of the New South.