John Newton, who served under Gen. Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox", in the American Revolutionary War.

[3] During the American Civil War, the county provided the Lamar Infantry, which was a part of Cobb's Legion.

Newton County claims to be the birthplace of Georgia 4-H. Actually, the Girls Canning and Boys Corn Clubs in 1904 by G.C.

[19] For the first half of the 20th century, Newton County followed the regular Solid South pattern of voting Democratic.

This margin ballooned to a double-digit percentage in 2020 when Joe Biden flipped the state back into the Democratic column; Kamala Harris built upon this margin by winning Newton by just over 15% four years later even as she lost Georgia and the election, albeit narrowly.