Peyton Anderson - 1924

He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a public relations officer. He was later awarded a Bronze Star for this service. Upon discharge from the Navy in 1945. He worked in Alabama as the publisher of the Gadsden Times until returning to Macon in 1947. He sold the Macon Telegraph and News in 1969 and retired to oversee his investments. At his death in 1988, the majority of his fortune, approximately $35 million, went to the Peyton Anderson Foundation to be used for the benefit of Macon and middle Georgia.