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A crash on Georgia 400 claimed the life of a member of Governor Nathan Deal's re-election campaign. Mack Burgess, 25, died in the accident Tuesday afternoon on Ga. 400 northbound at Interstate 285. Burgess was a field staffer for the Georgia Republican party. Burgess graduated from Centennial High School in 2008 and from the University of Tennessee in 2012, where he was the president of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Deal's opponent Jason Carter issued the following statement late Tuesday afternoon: “Kate and I are tremendously saddened to hear of the loss of Mack Burgess.