Month: April 2024
Nathaniel Darnell, President

Nathaniel Darnell, President

Nathaniel serves as the President (C.E.O.) of the GRA  and as the Chairman of the Cobb County Republican Assembly chapter. Prior to that he served as the NFRA Director (2021-2023), and the 3rd Vice President of the GRA (2020). He also was elected as the Treasurer of the 14th Congressional District GA GOP in 2023, and before that in 2019 he was elected the Vice Chair of Communications for the Cobb County Republican Party. He first started working in Georgia Republican politics in 1996, working for eight different Republican state legislators over the course of eight legislative sessions, including State Senator Mike Crane (R-Newnan), State Rep. Mitchell Kaye (R-Cobb), State Senator Billy Ray (R-Gwinnett), and others. He served as a state committee member for the Georgia Republican Party in the 11th Congressional District for seven years, and as the Executive Director of the Cobb County Republican Party for three years. He currently serves as the 14th District GA GOP Treasurer & on the GA GOP State Committee for the 14th. Nathaniel holds a Juris Doctorate with Oak Brook College of Law and works as a licensed financial advisor and insurance professional in Georgia. He is happily married to Abigail Darnell in Cobb County with their two children. You can reach him at president@georgiara.com.

Alex Johnson, Chairman

Alex Johnson, Chairman

Alex serves as the Chairman of the GRA Board and Executive Committee. From 2014 to 2023 he served as the GRA President. He attended Oglethorpe University and received a B.A. in Politics and attended Georgia State Law school for his Juris Doctor. While at Oglethorpe, he helped found the College Republicans in 2003. In 2009, he became involved in the DeKalb County Republican Party and DeKalb County Young Republicans serving as Secretary, Vice Chair and eventual two-term Chairman of the DeKalb County Young Republicans.

He has served within the DeKalb County Republican Party as an Executive Committee member, Senate District Chair, and General (Legal) Counsel, as well as being the Republican candidate for the Georgia State Senate in District 41 in 2010 against Democrat Steve Henson, losing but garnering approximately 43% of the vote.

Alex ran for Georgia GOP Chairman in 2013, 2015, and 2017 (receiving 40%, 45%, and 47% of the vote, respectively). He has also founded Advance the GOP, an informational effort to improve the Republican Party in Georgia by holding politicians accountable to the Republican principles that they claimed to support when they took office.

He received the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) President’s Award for Activism in 2017, and was also elected to serve as the Southern Regional Vice-President for the NFRA.

As his paying job, Alex practices law throughout Georgia, focusing on both personal injury and civil rights litigation, as well as representing businesses. He lives in Dunwoody, Georgia with his wife, Andrea.You can reach him at chairman@georgiara.com