US Congressman, and Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Alabama. He was born one of three children to John Claude "Johnny" Manasco (1868-1933), and his wife Dora Latitia Beatty Manasco (1877-1959), in Townley, Alabama, on January 3, 1902. His siblings included Lucile Manasco (1903-1935), and Martha Christine Manasco (1906-1991). He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools before attending the prestigious Howard College in Birmingham, Alabama, and the attending and graduating from prestigious law department of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with his Bachelor of Law or LL.B in 1927 and his Juris Doctor or J.D. in 1929. He was admitted to the bar that same year and began his practice of law in Jasper, Alabama, shortly thereafter. He then took an interest in politics and was elected and served a term as a Member of the Alabama State House of Representatives from 1930 to 1934. He also served as Secretary to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead (1874-1940), from 1933 to 1940. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Walter Will Bankhead (1897-1988), on June 24, 1941. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Alabama's 7th District (the Seventy-Eighth Congress, the Seventy-Ninth Congress, and the Eightieth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from June 24, 1941, to January 3, 1949. While serving in the United States Congress, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departmemnts while representing the Seventy-Eighth Congress and the Seventy-Ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for renomination in 1948. In total, he was elected to finish United State Representative Walter Will Bankhead's term, reelected in 1942, reelected in 1944, reelected in 1946, and lost renomination in 1948. During World War II, he rallied against the measures of agencies like the Office of Price Administration: Recently the Office of Price Administration issued a regulation placing a ceiling on the ancient game of pool and on the new national pastime, bowling. Of course, it is very important to call to the attention of the American people that their sons and brothers are dying in the Solomons, by placing a ceiling on these all-American pastimes. — Congressional Record via Carbon County News. Following his time in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999), on January 3, 1949. After leaving the United States Congress, he resumed his practice of law in Jasper, Alabama, and engaged in public relations work. He also served as a Member of the first Hoover Commission on Reorganization of the Execitive Departments from 1947 to 1976, and as a Legislature Counsel for the National Coal Association from 1949 to 1985. He passed away from pneumonia at the Arlington Hospital in Arlington, Virginia, on February 5, 1992, at the age of 90. Following his death, his funeral services were held through the Arlington Funeral Home in Arlington, Virginia, and he was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Jasper, Alabama. He was married to Mae Emma Guyton Manasco (1911-1963), with whom he one child, Thomas Guyton Manasco (1953-1978). His wife Mae predeceased him passing away on June 20, 1963, at the age of 52, and she was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Jasper, Alabama. His son Thomas passed away on June 10, 1978, at the age of 24, and he is also buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Jasper, Alabama.