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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJohn William DAVIS
(1916-1992)
DAVIS, John William, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Rome, Floyd County, Ga.,
September 12, 1916; attended the public schools; University of
Georgia at Athens, A.B., 1937 and from the law school of the same
university, LL.B., 1939; was admitted to the bar in 1939 and
commenced practice in Rome, Ga.; served in the War Department
Headquarters from July 1942 to December 1945, and assigned to the
Counter Intelligence Corps, serving for a time in South America;
moved to Summerville, Ga., in 1946 and resumed the practice of law;
solicitor general of the Rome Circuit from December 27, 1950 to
January 1, 1953; elected judge of the Lookout Mountain Judicial
Circuit for six years, and served from January 1, 1955, until his
resignation December 31, 1960; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1961-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law;
was a resident of St. Simons Island, Ga., until his death on
October 3, 1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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