U.S. Congressman. He attended Emory College, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced to practice law in Atlanta, Georgia. During World War I, he served as a Captain in the US Marines in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, Officers Reserve Corps. After the war, he was a member of the Georgia State House of Representatives (1924-28), attorney for the Georgia Department of Industrial Relations (1928-34) and judge of superior courts, Stone Mountain judicial circuit, (1934-47). In 1947, he was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress and to the next seven succeeding Congresses, serving until 1963. An unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination, he resumed the practice of law, was publisher of the Atlanta Times, (1964-65) and was on the board of directors, for Salem Campground and De Kalb Federal Savings and Loan Association.
U.S. Congressman. He attended Emory College, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced to practice law in Atlanta, Georgia. During World War I, he served as a Captain in the US Marines in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, Officers Reserve Corps. After the war, he was a member of the Georgia State House of Representatives (1924-28), attorney for the Georgia Department of Industrial Relations (1928-34) and judge of superior courts, Stone Mountain judicial circuit, (1934-47). In 1947, he was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress and to the next seven succeeding Congresses, serving until 1963. An unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination, he resumed the practice of law, was publisher of the Atlanta Times, (1964-65) and was on the board of directors, for Salem Campground and De Kalb Federal Savings and Loan Association.
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