ATLANTA — Sonny Perdue has been a Georgia state senator, governor and U.S. secretary of agriculture.
But not until Friday did the longtime public servant officially take on “maybe the most impactful job I’ve ever had” when he was formally invested as the 14th chancellor of the University System of Georgia.
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