Fayette County, Georgia

===Representation===
Fayette County has five incorporated municipalities within its borders; Fayetteville, Brooks, Woolsey, Tyrone and Peachtree City. Formerly, Inman was also a municipality, but gave up its charter years ago. In 2015, Fayetteville, a majority-white city, elected its first African-American mayor, Ed Johnson. In 2011, he had been the first African American elected to its city council and only the second African American elected to any office in the history of Fayette County.<ref name="joyner">[http://www.myajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/fayetteville-first-black-mayor-bridge-builder/Bndk1VDee9jSrgOkdBqe3J/ Tammy Joyner, "Fayetteville’s first black mayor is ‘bridge builder’"], ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution,'' 7 November 2015; accessed 13 December 2016</ref><ref name="pratt">[http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/2/16/black-mayors-georgia-towns.html Timothy Pratt, "New black mayors make a difference, one Georgia town at a time"], ''Al-Jazeera'' (US), 16 February 2016; accessed 12 December 2016</ref>
Fayette is represented in the U.S. House by the [[Georgia's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] and [[Georgia's 13th congressional district|13th]] congressional districts, and in the General Assembly by the 16th and 34th state senate and 63rd, 64th, 71st, 72nd and 73rd state house districts.