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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaBraswell Drue DEEN
(1893-1981)
DEEN, Braswell Drue, a
Representative from Georgia; born on a farm near Baxley, Appling
County, Ga., June 28, 1893; attended public and high schools and
South Georgia College, McRae, Ga.; elected county school
superintendent, Appling County, Ga., November 1916-August 1918; was
graduated from Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., in 1922;
superintendent of schools at Tennille, Ga., 1922-1924; president of
South Georgia Junior College, McRae, Ga., 1924-1927; engaged in
farming and real estate development in 1927 and 1928; editor and
proprietor of the Alma (Ga.) Times; also engaged in banking;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and
Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress;
insurance broker and cattle farmer; resided in Alma, Bacon County,
Ga., until his death there on November 28, 1981; interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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