James Curran Davis

James Curran Davis (born May 17, 1895 in Franklin , Heard County , Georgia , † December 18, 1981 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician and represented the state of Georgia as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

After attending school, Davis went to Reinhardt College in Waleska and Emory College in Oxford . He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1919, and then opened a practice in Atlanta. During the First World War he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps . There he served from December 24, 1917 until his discharge on January 11, 1919, first in the rank of lieutenant and later a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Department , and Officers Reserve Corps. After the war he resumed his practice as a lawyer.

Davis represented the De Kalb County constituency in the Georgia House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from 1924 to 1928 . He then worked from 1928 to 1931 as a lawyer in Georgia's Department of Employer-Employee Relations and from 1931 to 1934 in De Kalb County. He was then from 1934 to 1947 Judge of the Superior Court in the Stone Mountain Judicial District .

Davis was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1948 , having represented Georgia as a Democrat in the 80th Congress for a year . His term of office ran from January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1963. In 1962 he ran again for the 88th Congress, but failed. During his tenure he was involved in the constitution of the Southern Manifesto , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

After serving in Congress, he resumed his practice as a lawyer. Between 1964 and 1965 he was the publisher of the Atlanta Times and a board member of the Salem Campground and De Kalb Federal Savings and Loan Association in Atlanta. Davis died on December 18, 1981 in Atlanta. He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery , Newnan .

Web links

• James Curran Davis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)