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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJames Russell TUTEN
(1911-1968)
TUTEN, James Russell, a
Representative from Georgia; born on a farm in Appling County, Ga.,
July 23, 1911; educated in county public schools, South Georgia
College at Douglas, and Georgia Southern College at Statesboro;
engaged in farming, also as a teacher, bricklayer, businessman, and
building contractor; city commissioner, Brunswick, Ga., 1956-1962;
mayor of Brunswick in 1958 and 1962; chairman, board of trustees,
Brewton Parker College at Mount Vernon, Ga.; elected as a Democrat
to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3,
1963-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1966; appointed as cochairman of the Coastal Plains Regional
Commission in 1967; died in Falls Church, Va., August 16, 1968;
interment in Palmetto Cemetery, Brunswick, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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