Helen Douglas Mankin

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Helen Douglas Mankin

Helen Douglas Mankin (born September 11, 1896 in Atlanta , Georgia , †  July 25, 1956 there ) was an American politician . Between 1946 and 1947 she represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Helen Mankin attended both public and private schools. In 1917 she graduated from Rockford College in Illinois . During the First World War , in 1918, she was a driver of a Red Cross car for the French army. After studying law at the Atlanta Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1920, she began working in her new profession.

Mankin was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1937 and 1946 she was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . After the resignation of Congressman Robert Ramspeck , she was elected in the due by-election for the fifth seat of Georgia as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There she took up her new mandate on February 12, 1946. Since she was not nominated for re-election by her party in 1946, she was only able to end the current legislative term in Congress until January 3, 1947 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Helen Mankin withdrew from politics. She spent the last years of her life in her native Atlanta until her death on July 25, 1956.

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SURNAME Mankin, Helen Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1956
Place of death Atlanta , Georgia