Farish Carter Tate

Farish Carter Tate

Farish Carter Tate (born November 20, 1856 in Jasper , Georgia , †  February 7, 1922 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1893 and 1905 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Farish Tate was a member of the most influential family in Pickens County , after which the city of Tate was named and who founded the Georgia Marble Company there. He attended his home public schools and the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega . After a subsequent law degree and admission as a lawyer in 1880, he began to work in this profession in Jasper.

Politically, Tate became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1882 and 1887 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . In the years 1884 to 1887 and again from 1890 to 1892 he was a member of the state board of his party. In 1888 he was a delegate at the regional democratic party congress in his home state. In the 1892 congressional election , Tate was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Thomas E. Winn on March 4, 1893 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1905 . During this time the Spanish-American War fell . At that time the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration.

In 1904, Tate was no longer nominated by his party for another legislative term. Between 1905 and 1913, he succeeded Edgar A. Angier as a federal attorney for the northern part of Georgia. Then he worked again as a lawyer. Farish Tate died on February 7, 1922 in Jasper, his birthplace.

Web links

• Farish Carter Tate in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Farish Carter Tate in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Farish Carter Tate at The Political Graveyard