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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJames Beriah FRAZIER, Jr.
(1890-1978)
FRAZIER, James Beriah,
Jr., (son of James Beriah Frazier), a Representative from
Tennessee; born in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., June 23,
1890; educated in the public schools and Baylor Preparatory School
in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville; was graduated from Chattanooga College of Law in
1914; was admitted to the bar in 1914 and commenced the practice of
law in Chattanooga, Tenn.; during the First World War volunteered
for service on April 21, 1917, and was discharged as a major in
March 1919; appointed United States attorney for the eastern
district of Tennessee on September 25, 1933, and served until his
resignation on April 12, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1949-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in
Chattanooga, Tenn., where he died October 30, 1978; interment in
Forest Hills Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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