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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJoseph Landon EVINS
(1910-1984)
EVINS, Joseph Landon, a
Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Blend, DeKalb
County, Tenn., October 24, 1910; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1933 and
from Cumberland University School of Law, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1934;
postgraduate student of law at George Washington University,
Washington, D.C., 1938-1940; was admitted to the bar in 1934 and
commenced practice in Smithville, Tenn.; attorney for Federal Trade
Commission in Washington, D.C., 1935-1938; assistant secretary of
the Federal Trade Commission 1938-1940; served in the United States
Army on the staff of the Judge Advocate General, War Department,
from March 1942 until discharged as a major in March 1946; resumed
the practice of law in Smithville, Tenn.; chairman of the DeKalb
County Democratic Executive Committee in 1946; elected as a
Democrat to the Eightieth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1977); chairman, Select Committee on
Small Business (Eighty-eighth through Ninety-third Congresses),
Committee on Small Business (Ninety-fourth Congress); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; was
a resident of Smithville, Tenn., until his death March 31, 1984, in
Nashville, Tenn.; interment in Smithville Town Cemetery,
Smithville, Tenn.
Bibliography
Graves, Susan B. Evins of Tennessee, Twenty-five Years in
Congress. New York: Popular Library, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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