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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaCharles Longstreet WELTNER
(1927-1992)
WELTNER, Charles
Longstreet, a Representative from Georgia; born in Atlanta,
Fulton County Ga., December 17, 1927; attended the public schools
of Fulton County, Ga.; graduated from Oglethorpe University at
Atlanta, Ga., in 1948 and from Columbia University School of Law at
New York City, in 1950; received M.A. from Columbia Theological
Seminary, 1983, and LL.M., University of Virginia Law School, 1983;
commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga., in 1950; served as a first
lieutenant in the United States Army, 1955-1957; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January
3, 1963-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in
1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election
in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; deputy chairman, Democratic
National Committee, and director of young Americans division, 1967;
resumed the practice of law; judge, Superior Court, Atlanta
Judicial Circuit, 1976-1981; chairman, Judicial Council of Georgia,
1980-1981; justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, 1981-1992, chief
justice from June 1992 until his death in Atlanta, Ga., on August
31, 1992; was a resident of Atlanta.
Bibliography
Weltner, Charles L. Southerner. Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott, 1966; Wannamaker, George Noell, “Charles
Longstreet Weltner: A Public Life.” Ph. D. Diss., Georgia
State University, 1999.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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