Ezekiel Candler Gathings

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Ezekiel Candler Gathings, 1943

Ezekiel Candler Gathings (born November 10, 1903 in Prairie , Monroe County , Mississippi , † May 2, 1979 in West Memphis , Arkansas ) was an American politician and represented the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives for 30 years .

Career

Gathings was born in Prairie, Mississippi, where he also attended public school. He later went to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa . He graduated from the Law Department of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1929 . He was admitted to the bar in the same year and opened a practice in Helena . He then moved to West Memphis in 1932 and ran a practice there.

Gathings sat in the Arkansas Senate between 1935 and 1939 and was elected Democrat in the 76th and 14 subsequent conventions. He worked there as a member of parliament between January 3, 1939 and January 3, 1969. In the spring of 1956, Gathings and 95 other prominent politicians signed the Southern Manifesto , a letter of protest against racial integration in public institutions in the United States. After his long service in Congress, he decided not to run for the 91st Congress in 1968. He returned to his practice as a lawyer. He later served on the staff of the West Memphis Port Authority.

Ezekiel Candler Gathings lived in West Memphis until his death on May 2, 1979. He was buried in the Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion .

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personal data
SURNAME Gathings, Ezekiel Candler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Prairie , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1979
Place of death West Memphis , Arkansas