Bryant Thomas Castellow

Bryant Thomas Castellow (born July 29, 1876 in Georgetown , Quitman County , Georgia , †  July 23, 1962 in Cuthbert , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1932 and 1937 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bryant Castellow attended the common schools and the high schools in Eufaula ( Alabama ) and Coleman . He then studied at Mercer University in Macon . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Georgia in Athens and his admission as a lawyer in 1897, he began to work in Fort Gaines in his new profession. In 1897 and 1898 he served as a school council in Coleman. Between 1899 and 1902 he was captain of an infantry unit of the state militia . In 1900 and 1901 Castellow also held the office of prosecutor in Clay County . In this district he then worked as a judge until 1905. In 1906 he moved to Cuthbert, where he worked as a bankruptcy administrator until 1912. Between 1913 and 1932, Castellow was a prosecutor in the judicial district of Pataula.

After the resignation of Congressman Charles R. Crisp , he was elected in the due by-election for the third seat of Georgia as its successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took up his new mandate on November 8, 1932. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1937 . During this time, many New Deal laws were passed there by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

In 1936, Bryant Castellow declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he retired. He died on July 23, 1962 in Cuthbert and was buried there.

Web links

• Bryant Thomas Castellow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bryant Thomas Castellow in the database of Find a Grave (English)