James W. Overstreet

James W. Overstreet

James Whetstone Overstreet (born August 28, 1866 in Sylvania , Screven County , Georgia , †  December 4, 1938 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1906 and 1907 and again from 1917 to 1923 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Overstreet was born on a farm near Sylvania. He attended public schools in his home country including Sylvania High School . He then studied until 1888 at Mercer University . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1892, he began to work in his new profession in Sylvania. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Overstreet served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1898 and 1899 . From 1905 to 1906 he was a board member of his party. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a municipal judge in Sylvania. After the death of longtime MP Rufus E. Lester , he was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the first Georgia seat . There he took up his new mandate on October 3, 1906. By March 3, 1907, he ended the current legislative period in Congress . Then Charles Gordon Edwards, elected in the 1906 regular election, succeeded him in the US House of Representatives.

In the following years James Overstreet worked again as a lawyer in Sylvania. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the 1916 congressional elections , he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the first district of Georgia. There he replaced Charles Edwards on March 4, 1917. After two re-elections, he was able to complete three full legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1923. During this time the First World War fell . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were also passed at that time. It was about the ban on alcohol trafficking and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

For the 1922 election, James Overstreet was not nominated by his party for another term in Congress. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Politically, he no longer appeared. James Overstreet died in December 1938 in Sylvania and was buried there. He was married to Dicie Nunally (1879-1958) and the couple had one son.

Web links

• James W. Overstreet in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James W. Overstreet in the database of Find a Grave (English)