BallotPedia, Edward C. James (Jefferson County Coroner, Georgia, candidate 2024)

As of May 17, 2024, Edward C James did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

Edward C James is currently a coroner in Jefferson County.

As of March 19, 2024, Edward C James did not have a website or any information online.

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Jerry lives in Louisville, Georgia with his wife and grandchildren. 

As of May 11, 2024, Jerry Lee Taylor Jr did not have a website or publicly available contact information in order for us to send them our questionnaire.

Jerry Lee Taylor Jr. ran for coroner in Jefferson County in 2016 and 2020 but did not win. 

Wants to "distance" the coroner's office from for-profit companies.

- Wants to "distance" the coroner's office from for-profit companies.

Plans to start a call log of coroner response times.

- Plans to start a call log of coroner response times.

Jerry Lee Taylor Jr

Jerry Lee Taylor Jr. lives in Louisville, Georgia with his wife and grandchildren. 

As of April 16, 2024, Jerry Lee Taylor Jr did not have a website or publicly available contact information in order for us to send them our questionnaire.

Jerry Lee Taylor Jr. ran for coroner in Jefferson County in 2016 and 2020 and lost. 

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 