David H. Gambrell

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David H. Gambrell

David Henry Gambrell (born December 20, 1929 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is a former American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1971 to 1972 he sat for the US state Georgia in the US Senate .

biography

Gambrell was born in Atlanta, where he grew up. In 1949 he graduated from Davidson College in Davidson . He received the Juris Doctor from Harvard University in 1952 . He then served in the United States Army Reserve . After a brief stint as a research assistant at Harvard University, he worked as a lawyer, ultimately as a partner, at the law firm King & Spalding in Atlanta. In 1963 he founded his own law firm with Gambrell & Stolz. Since then, he has been involved with the Atlanta Bar Association and the Georgia State Bar Association, among others.

From 1970 to 1971, Gambrell was chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party. After the death of Richard B. Russell in 1971, he was appointed by then Governor Jimmy Carter as his successor in the Senate. During his brief tenure, he was a member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs , the United States Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and the United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship . In the party primaries for the Senate election taking place in 1972, the more liberal Gambrell was beaten by the more conservative Sam Nunn , who also won the main election. Gambrell ran for governor of Georgia in 1974, but only finished fourth within the party after the Democratic primary.

After his brief foray into politics, Gambrell was active, among other things, at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Today he lives in seclusion in Atlanta.

Gambrell is married to Luck Flanders Gambrell and has four children.

Web links

  • David H. Gambrell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)