Carlton Mobley

Carlton Mobley (1932)

William Carlton Mobley (born December 7, 1906 in Hillsboro , Jones County , Georgia , †  October 14, 1981 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1932 and 1933 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carlton Mobley attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Mercer University in Macon and his admission as a lawyer in 1928, he began to work in Forsyth in his new profession. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . From 1929 he was secretary to Congressman Samuel Rutherford . After his death he was elected in the due by-election for the sixth seat of Georgia as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took up his new mandate on March 2, 1932. Since he was in the regular congressional elections in 1932no longer running, he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1933 . The 20th amendment to the constitution was passed there during this period .

Between 1934 and 1937, Mobley worked for the Georgia state government. Between 1941 and 1943 he served as his state's Assistant Attorney General . During the Second World War he was an officer in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946 . After the war he worked as a lawyer in Macon. Since 1954, Mobley was a judge on the Supreme Court of Georgia . In 1969 he took over as Chief Justice of its chairmanship; he held this office until 1975. He died on October 14, 1981 in Atlanta.

Web links

• Carlton Mobley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)