James Robert Mann (politician, 1920)

James Robert Mann (1977)

James Robert Mann (born April 27, 1920 in Greenville , South Carolina , † December 20, 2010 there ) was an American politician . Between 1969 and 1979 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Mann attended Greenville High School until 1937 . He then graduated from The Citadel military academy in Charleston until 1941 . During the Second World War , Mann was an officer in the US Army between 1941 and 1946 . He then became a member of the military reserve. He was also the head of the South Carolina Veterans Association from 1951 to 1952. After a subsequent law degree at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and his admission to the bar in 1947, he began to practice in his new profession. He was also the editor of a legal newspaper, the South Carolina Law Review .

Politically, Mann joined the Democratic Party . Between 1949 and 1952 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives . From 1954 to 1962 he was a district attorney in the 13th judicial district of South Carolina. He then served from 1963 to 1967 as Secretary of the Planning Commission in Greenville County . James Mann was also the curator of the Greenville Municipal Hospital Association from 1966 to 1968.

In 1968, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Robert T. Ashmore on January 3, 1969 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1979 . The Watergate affair , among other things, took place during this period . At that time, Mann was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee that proposed impeachment proceedings against US President Richard Nixon . Nixon anticipated this process by resigning in August 1974.

In 1978 Mann renounced another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He was married to Virginia Thomson Brunson.

Web links

• James Robert Mann in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)