Special to the WJH
MACON — Pierce County’s Daniel Johnson has been re-elected to represent the 53-county region as Georgia Farm Bureau South Georgia vice president.
Johnson will be serving his fourth three-year term after voting December 9, 2025 during the 2026 Board of Directors 88th annual GFB Convention held on Jekyll Island.
Johnson, who grows tobacco, corn, cotton and peanuts, previously represented the organization’s 10th District on the GFB Board of Directors from 20062016. He is vice president of Pierce County Farm Bureau and previously served as PCFB president for 25 years.
The 53-county region runs from Alabama to the Georgia coast in the southern third of the state.
All GFB voting delegates designated Johnson to serve as GFB 1st vice president from among the organization’s three regional vice presidents, a position he has held since 2021. The GFB first vice president would step in to lead the organization should the president be unable to serve.
Johnson chairs the Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Tobacco. He and his wife, Patricia, have four children and five grandchildren.
GFB President Tom McCall begins the second year of his third, two-year term. He was first elected in 2020. McCall and his family grow a variety of grain crops, sweet corn, hay and straw along with beef cattle, hogs and sheep on their farm in Fortsonia in Elbert County.
He and his wife, Jane, have two adult living children, Al (daughter-in-law Rachel) and Katie M. Archer (son-in-law Bristol), two grandsons and one granddaughter. Their oldest son, Bud, died in 2000. The McCalls are of the Methodist faith.
McCall has been a Farm Bureau member since 1978. His first leadership role with Farm Bureau was serving as chairman of the Elbert County Farm Bureau (ECFB) Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Committee.
He represented GFB’s 2nd District on the GFB YF&R Committee in 1981-82 and chaired the state committee in 1982. Mc-Call represented GFB’s 2nd District on the GFB Board of Directors from 1984-1996. He also served as ECFB president for several years.
McCall served in the Georgia House of Representatives for 26 years from January 9, 1995, when he was sworn into office, until he retired from the legislature at the end of his 2020 term.
As a state representative, McCall represented Georgia’s House District 33, which at the time included Elbert and Lincoln counties and portions of Madison, Wilkes and Columbia counties.
