CORDELE, a city of Georgia, U.S.A., 14om. S. by E. of Atlanta; the county seat of Crisp county. It is on Federal high way 41, and is served by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast, the Georgia South-western and Gulf, the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern railways. The population in 1920 was 6,538, of whom 3,254 were negroes, and was 6,88o by the Federal census in 193o. It ships great quantities of peanuts, and manufactures peanut confections, cotton oil and fertilizer. Cordele was for a time the home of Joseph E. Brown, the Civil War governor of Georgia, and was a temporary capital of the State. It was in corporated as a city in 1888, and in 1923 adopted a commission manager form of government.