Albert Sidney Camp

Albert Sidney Camp

Albert Sidney Camp (born July 26, 1892 in Moreland , Coweta County , Georgia , †  July 24, 1954 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1954 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Camp was born on a farm and attended public schools in his homeland. After studying law at the University of Georgia in Athens and being admitted to the bar in 1915, he began working in his new profession in Newnan . During the First World War he was a soldier in the US Army between 1917 and 1919 . He was employed in Europe on the staff of a divisional headquarters.

Politically, Camp was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York , where John W. Davis was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1923 and 1928, Camp was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . From 1934 to 1939 he served as the assistant federal attorney for the northern part of the state of Georgia.

After the death of MP Emmett Marshall Owen , Camp was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on August 1, 1939, when the by-election was due for the fourth seat of Georgia . After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 24, 1954 . There, further New Deal laws of the federal government were first passed. From December 1941 the work of the Congress was determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Camp witnessed the founding of the UN , the beginning of the Cold War and the Korean War in Congress . In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Congress.

Web links

• Albert Sidney Camp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert Sidney Camp in the database of Find a Grave (English)