Malcolm C. Tarver

Malcolm Connor Tarver (born September 25, 1885 in Rural Vale , Whitfield County , Georgia , †  March 5, 1960 in Dalton , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1947 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Malcolm Tarver attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Mercer University in Macon and his admission as a lawyer in 1904, he began to work in Dalton in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1909 and 1912 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives , and from 1913 to 1914 he was a member of the State Senate . Between 1917 and 1927, Tarver served as a judge on several courts in the Cherokee Judicial District.

In the 1926 congressional election , Tarver was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the Seventh Constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Gordon Lee on March 4, 1927 . After nine re-elections, he was able to complete ten consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1947 . The New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there since 1933 . Since 1941, the work of Congress has been determined by the events of World War II and its immediate aftermath. During Tarver's time in the US House of Representatives, the 20th and 21st amendments were passed there in 1933 . Also in 1933, Tarver became a member of a special committee that prepared the impeachment charges against Federal Judge Harold Louderback .

In 1946, Malcolm Tarver was no longer nominated by his party for another legislative term. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to work as a lawyer. He died in Dalton on March 5, 1960.

Web links

• Malcolm C. Tarver in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Malcolm C. Tarver in the database of Find a Grave (English)