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"Bourbon Triumvirate refers to Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politicians of the post-Reconstruction era: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon."

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* Brown was a senator from 1880 until 1890

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The two preeminent journalists, mainly Grady, played important roles in the trio's political strategizing, most particularly in the suspicious series of the events involving Gordon's resignation from the U.S. Senate and his replacement by Brown in 1880, as well as Gordon's somewhat postponed but an eventually successful entry into the 1886 governor's race.

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After Gordon became governor, the always limited solidarity among the members of the Bourbon Triumvirate began to collapse

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+ + The rise of the Farmers' Alliance to a position of strength within the Democratic Party in 1890, the rising influence of the popular U.S. representative Thomas Watson, and the passage of time essentially ended the era of the Bourbon Triumvirate. Brown and Colquitt both died in 1894, and Gordon retired from politics after completing his last term in the U.S. Senate in 1897.

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* Gordon was a senator from 1872 until 1880, governor from 1886 until 1890, and senator again from 1891 until 1897. 

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* Colquitt was a governor from 1876 through 1882, and was also a senator from 1883 until 1884

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+ The friction that had existed between the free-trader Colquitt and the protectionist Brown erupted into open conflict after U.S. president Grover Cleveland's low-tariff address of 1887. And Brown and Gordon disliked each other ever since the latter's role in resolving the Hayes-Tilden election dispute of 1876, and after a rebellion of convict miners at Brown's Dade Coal Company in 1886 exposed the horrors of the convict lease system, Gordon made convict lease reform a key part of his platform.

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+The trio could be viewed as the core of the larger "Atlanta Ring," which also included Atlanta Constitution editors Evan Howell and Henry W. Grady.