US Congressman, Judge. He was born one of eight children in Ruralvale (or Dalton), Georgia, to Robert Martin McNair Tarver and Mary Ann Denton Tarver, and he attended local common public schools before entering and graduating from the law department of the distinguished Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, in 1904. He was admitted to the bar that same year and commenced his practice of law in Dalton, Georgia. He then entered public service and was elected as a Member of the Georgia State House of Representatives (or Legislature) and served in that position from 1909 to 1912. He also served as a Member of the Georgia State Senate in 1913 and again in 1914, and as a State Court Judge of the Superior Courts of Cherokee Circuit Courts in Georgia from 1917 to 1927. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A Democrat, he then served Georgia's 7th District (Seventieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses) in the United States House of Representatives from 1927 to 1947. While serving in the United States Congress he was one of the managers appointed by the United States House of Representatives to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback (he had been served with five Articles of Impeachment by the United States House of Representatives, including 4 articles alleging corruption in bankruptcy cases) who was Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in 1933. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946. After his term in the United States Congress expired on January 3, 1947, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Henderson Lovelace Lanham. Following his time in public service, he resumed his practice of law until his death. He was married twice and had three children including Malcolm Connor Tarver Jr. who was born in 1907. He passed away in Dalton, Georgia, at the age of 74. His funeral was held at the First Methodist Church of Dalton and he was buried in that city's West Hill Cemetery. He was a lifelong member of the Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen, Redmen, Junior Order, and the Patriotic Order Sons of America.