John J. Flynt Jr.

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.