Biography
A Representative from West Virginia. Born in Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va. , March 18, 1915. Attended the public schools in Charleston, W. Va. , and Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Member of Kanawha County Court 1948-1952. Kanawha County assessor 1952-1958. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1959, until his death March 17, 1980, in Alexandria, Va. Interment in Cunningham Memorial Park, St. Albans, W. Va.