Biography
A Representative from Georgia; born in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Ga., November 18, 1883; attended the Georgia Military College at Milledgeville, Ga.; graduated from Mercer University Law School, Macon, Ga., in 1902; admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Milledgeville; prosecuting attorney of Baldwin County, Ga., 1906-1909; member of the Georgia state house of representatives, 1909-1912, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1911 and 1912; appointed judge of the county court of Baldwin County, Ga., October 3, 1912, to November 2, 1914, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Thomas W. Hardwick; reelected to the Sixty-fourth and to the twenty-four succeeding Congresses (November 3, 1914-January 3, 1965); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Armed Services (Eighty-first, Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Congress; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964; died on June 1, 1981, in Milledgeville, Ga.; interment in Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
