William Gordon Brantley

William Gordon Brantley

William Gordon Brantley (born September 18, 1860 in Blackshear , Pierce County , Georgia , †  September 11, 1934 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1913 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Brantley attended public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of Georgia in Athens . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1881, he began to work in Blackshear in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Brantley was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1884 and 1885 ; from 1886 to 1887 he was a member of the State Senate . Between 1888 and 1896 he was a prosecutor in the judicial district of Brunswick . Since 1889 he was resident in this city.

In the congressional election of 1896 , Brantley was elected to the Eleventh constituency of Georgia in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Henry Gray Turner on March 4, 1897 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . The Spanish-American War took place during this period . At that time the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

For the 1912 elections , Brantley declined to run for Congress again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he stayed in the federal capital Washington, where he worked as a lawyer in the following years. Politically, he did not appear again until his death in September 1934. William Brantley was married twice and had a total of five children.

Web links

• William Gordon Brantley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Gordon Brantley in the database of Find a Grave (English)