A Representative from Georgia. Born in Griffin, Spalding County, Ga. , November 8, 1914. Attended the public schools and Georgia Military Academy (now the Woodward Academy). A. B. , University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. , 1936. United States Army, 1936-1937, 1941-1945, participated in the Normandy invasion. United States Army Reserve. Attended Emory University Law School in 1937 and 1938. Graduated from George Washington University Law School, Washington, D. C. , 1940. Lawyer, private practice. Assistant United States attorney for northern district of Georgia, 1939-1941, 1945 and 1946. Member of the Georgia state house of representatives, 1947-1948. Solicitor general for Griffin Judicial Circuit, 1949-1954. President, Georgia Bar Association, 1953-1954. Delegate, Georgia State Democratic conventions, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, and 1966. Delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960 and 1968. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative A. Sidney Camp and at the same time was elected to the Eighty-fourth Congress. Reelected to the eleven succeeding Congresses (November 2, 1954-January 3, 1979). Chair, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978. Resumed the practice of law and farming operations. Engaged in banking and real estate. Died on June 24, 2007, in Griffin, Ga. Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Griffin, Ga.
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