When Derek Dooley jumped into the U.S. Senate race in Georgia earlier this month, any questions of “Derek who?” were quickly followed up with an answer that stopped the guessing. “Vince’s son.”

Vince, of course, is Vince Dooley, the legendary University of Georgia football coach so iconic that the Bulldogs play their home games on Dooley Field across campus from a statue of Dooley himself.

But a more important family connection for the former University of Tennessee coach was not Derek Dooley’s father but his brother. Long ago, Daniel Dooley introduced his little brother to a friend who would eventually be instrumental to his run for U.S. Senate. That friend was Brian Kemp .

Fast forward nearly 40 years, and Derek Dooley isn’t the only son of a rich or famous family running for offi

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