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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam David UPSHAW
(1866-1952)
UPSHAW, William David, a
Representative from Georgia; born near Newnan, Coweta County, Ga.,
October 15, 1866; attended the country schools, the public schools
of Atlanta, Ga., and Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; engaged in
agricultural and mercantile pursuits until physically incapacitated
by an accident; founded “The Golden Age,” magazine at
Atlanta, Ga., February 22, 1906; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1926; vice chairman of the Scandinavian Commercial Commission;
nominated for President by the Prohibition Party in 1932;
unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United
States Senator in 1942; resumed his former pursuits as a lecturer,
evangelist, and writer; vice president of the Linda Vista Baptist
Bible College and Seminary and member of the faculty, San Diego,
Calif.; at the age of seventy-two was ordained a minister of the
Baptist Church; died in Glendale, Calif., November 21, 1952;
interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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