Sam Hobbs

Samuel Francis Hobbs (born October 5, 1887 in Selma , Dallas County , Alabama , † May 31, 1952 ) was an American lawyer, judge and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

Samuel Francis Hobbs attended public schools, the Callaway Preparatory School in Selma and the Marion Military Institute in Marion. Then he attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville ( Tennessee ) and graduated in 1908 from the Law Faculty of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa . He was admitted to the bar in the same year and then began to practice in Selma. Hobbs was appointed a judge in the Alabama Fourth Judicial District in 1921. He was elected to the same office in 1923 and held it until his resignation in 1926. He then went back to his practice as a lawyer. He chaired the Muscle Shoals Commission in 1931 and the Alabama National Recovery Administration Committee in 1933 .

Hobbs was elected to the 74th US Congress and re - elected to the seven subsequent US Congresses . He served in the US House of Representatives from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1951. During this time, the US House of Representatives appointed him in 1936 as one of the directors who should lead the impeachment proceedings against Halsted L. Ritter , a judge at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida . Hobbs did not seek re-election in 1950. After the end of his tenure, he returned to Selma, where he resumed his practice as a lawyer.

Hobbs died there in 1952 and was buried in Live Oak Cemetery .

Web links

• Sam Hobbs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sam Hobbs in the database of Find a Grave (English)