CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) - Georgia officials say a Republican state lawmaker was hospitalized after a Thursday seizure.
House Speaker David Ralston said Friday that the condition of Republican state Rep. Matt Barton of Calhoun was improving.
Ralston, a Blue Ridge Republican, said doctors were trying to determine the cause of Barton’s illness. The first-term House member operates a medical transport and fell ill while at Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome. The Calhoun Times reports Barton has a blood infection.
A former member of the Calhoun city council, Barton represents parts of Gordon and Murray counties in northwest Georgia. He won a special election in 2019 after longtime state Rep. John Meadows, who had been chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, died in 2018.
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