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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaIris Faircloth BLITCH
(1912-1993)
BLITCH, Iris Faircloth, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Toombs County, near Vidalia,
Ga., April 25, 1912; attended the public schools of Vidalia,
Douglas, Fitzgerald, and Homerville, Ga., and Hagerstown, Md.;
student at the University of Georgia at Athens in 1929 and attended
South Georgia College at Douglas in 1949; associated with husband
in drug business, naval stores operations, and farming in
Homerville, Ga.; elected to the State senate in 1946; elected to
the State house of representatives in 1948 and defeated for
reelection in 1950; again elected to the State senate in 1952 and
served until December 31, 1954; Democratic national committeewoman
for Georgia 1948-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3,
1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to the
Eighty-eighth Congress; was a resident of St. Simons Island, Ga;
moved in 1988 to San Diego, Calif., where she died on August 19,
1993; interment in Pinelawn Cemetery, Homerville, Ga.
Bibliography
”Iris Faircloth Blitch” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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