Charles Paul Efstration III (born April 24, 1983) is a Republican member of the

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from the 104th District, serving since 2013. In 2022, Efstration was elected Majority Leader.

Career

In 2008, Efstration became an Assistant District Attorney of Gwinnett County Judicial Circuit, until 2013. In 2013, Efstration was an attorney at Efstration Law Firm, Professional Corporation, until 2018. On November 5, 2013, Efstration and Teresa Cantrell were top candidates in the election and required a runoff. On December 3, 2013, Efstration won the special runoff election and became a Republican member of the

for District 104. Efstration defeated Teresa Cantrell with 64.57% of the votes. On November 3, 2020, as an incumbent, Efstration won the election and continued serving District 104. Efstration defeated Nakita Hemingway with 51.15% of the votes. He previously ran for the

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

. Efstration was a sponsor of a hate crimes law allowing for the imposition of extra penalties to criminals motivated by a victim's race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender or disability, which passed after the

murder of Ahmaud Arbery On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was murdered during a racially motivated Hate crime laws in the United States, hate crime while jogging in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia, Brunswick in Glynn ...

. In 2018, Efstration became an attorney at McGarity and Efstration.

Personal life

Efstration's wife is Ashley Efstration. They have two children.

References

External links

Chuck Efstration at ballotpedia.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Efstration, Chuck 1983 births Living people Republican Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives People from Gwinnett County, Georgia 21st-century members of the Georgia General Assembly