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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaPhillip Mitchell LANDRUM
(1907-1990)
LANDRUM, Phillip Mitchell,
a Representative from Georgia; born in Martin, Stephens County,
Ga., September 10, 1907; attended the public schools and Mercer
University, Macon, Ga.; graduated from Piedmont College, Demorest,
Ga., A.B., 1939 and from the Atlanta Law School, LL.B., 1941;
superintendent of Nelson (Ga.) High School 1937-1941; was admitted
to the bar in 1941 and commenced the practice of law in Canton,
Ga.; was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the
Seventy-eighth Congress in 1942; during the Second World War
enlisted as a private in the United States Army Air Corps on
October 2, 1942; served in Europe and was discharged on June 1,
1945, as a first lieutenant; employed by Veterans’
Administration after discharge; assistant attorney general of State
of Georgia in 1946 and 1947; executive secretary to the Governor of
Georgia in 1947 and 1948; practiced law in Jasper, Ga., until
election to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and
to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3,
1977); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the
Ninety-fifth Congress; was a resident of Jasper, Ga., until his
death on November 19, 1990.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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