Maston E. O'Neal

Maston E. O'Neal

Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. (born July 19, 1907 in Bainbridge , Georgia , †  January 9, 1990 there ) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1971 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Maston O'Neal attended public schools in his home country and then the Marion Military Institute . He then studied to 1927 at Davidson College in North Carolina . In the meantime he worked as a high school teacher. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1930, he began to work in the judicial district of Albany in his new profession. Between 1941 and 1964, O'Neal was Solicitor General in this judicial district. This time was only interrupted by his military service with the US Navy during World War II. He was deployed in the Pacific region between 1944 and 1946.

Politically, O'Neal was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1964 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded J. L. Pilcher on January 3, 1965 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1971 . These were shaped by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement . In 1964, the 24th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in Congress and put into effect.

For the 1970 elections, O'Neal declined to run for Congress again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics. He died on January 9, 1990 in his native Bainbridge.

Web links

• Maston E. O'Neal in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Maston E. O'Neal in the database of Find a Grave (English)