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Bond Almand (1894-1985) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Lithonia, DeKalb
County, Ga., January
13, 1894.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Fulton County, 1935-36;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1942-43, 1945-49; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1949-69; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1969-72.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Nu; Phi
Alpha Delta; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Junior
Order; Kiwanis.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 13,
1985 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander James Almand and Clara Emily (Bond) Almand; married, June 18,
1932, to Helen Whitefoot Barnett; grandson of William
Parks Bond. |
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Arthur Key Bolton (b. 1922) —
of Spalding
County, Ga.
Born in Griffin, Spalding
County, Ga., May 14,
1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Spalding County, 1949-56,
1959-66; Georgia
state attorney general, 1965-81.
Baptist.
Member, Elks;
Veterans of Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Delta Phi; Kiwanis.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph A. Boyd Jr. (1916-2007) —
of Hialeah, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Hoschton, Jackson
County, Ga., November
16, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1969-87.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Elks; Lions.
Died, of heart
failure, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., October
26, 2007 (age 90 years, 344
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Paul C. Broun (1916-2005) —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Bogart, Oconee
County, Ga.
Born in Shellman, Randolph
County, Ga., March 1,
1916.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; merchant;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1963-2001.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Moose; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
Died February
14, 2005 (age 88 years, 350
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Cecil Earl Brown (1921-1988) —
also known as Cecil E. Brown —
of Lumber City, Telfair
County, Ga.
Born in Chauncey, Dodge
County, Ga., April 2,
1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; wholesale
lumber business; director, Bank of
Lumber City; mayor of Lumber City, Ga., 1947-50; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Telfair County, 1953-56.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Died December
19, 1988 (age 67 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edd Brown and Mary Ann (Jones) Brown; married, August
14, 1949, to Nancey Elizabeth McGinty. |
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Garland Turk Byrd (1924-1997) —
of Reynolds, Taylor
County, Ga.
Born in Reynolds, Taylor
County, Ga., July 16,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; farmer; real estate
business; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Taylor County, 1947-50;
resigned 1950; Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1959-63.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Moose;
Elks; Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Sigma
Chi.
Died May 31,
1997 (age 72 years, 319
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Reynolds, Ga.
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S. Sam Caldwell (b. 1929) —
of Georgia.
Born in East Point, Fulton
County, Ga., January
22, 1929.
Georgia
commissioner of labor, 1967-.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Elks;
Veterans of Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
Still living as of 1975.
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John James Flynt Jr. (1914-2007) —
also known as Jack Flynt —
of Griffin, Spalding
County, Ga.
Born in Griffin, Spalding
County, Ga., November
8, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Spalding County, 1947-48; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1954-79 (4th District 1954-65, 6th
District 1965-79).
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Woodmen;
Elks; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Farm
Bureau; National Rifle
Association.
Died in Griffin, Spalding
County, Ga., June 24,
2007 (age 92 years, 228
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Griffin, Ga.
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Samuel Marvin Griffin (1907-1982) —
also known as Marvin Griffin —
of Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga.
Born in Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga., September
4, 1907.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Decatur County, 1935-36;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1940,
1952;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; Adjutant
General of Georgia, 1944-47; president, radio
station WMGR, Bainbridge, Ga., 1946; Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1948-55; Governor of
Georgia, 1955-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Moose; Eagles;
Junior
Order; Woodmen;
Sigma
Delta Chi; Lions.
Died June 13,
1982 (age 74 years, 282
days).
Interment at Oak
City Cemetery, Bainbridge, Ga.
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Edwards Culver Kidd Jr. (1914-1995) —
also known as E. Culver Kidd, Jr. —
of Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., July 17,
1914.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; druggist;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Baldwin County, 1947-52,
1957-63; member of Georgia
state senate, 1963-92; defeated in primary, 1992.
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
Jaycees;
American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., December
4, 1995 (age 81 years, 140
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Phillip Mitchell Landrum (1907-1990) —
also known as Phillip M. Landrum —
of Jasper, Pickens
County, Ga.
Born in Martin, Stephens
County, Ga., September
10, 1907.
Democrat. Athletic
coach; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1953-77; defeated in
primary, 1942.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Elks; United
Commercial Travelers.
Co-author of Landrum-Griffin Act.
Died November
19, 1990 (age 83 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. (1941-2007) —
also known as Charlie Norwood —
of Evans, Columbia
County, Ga.
Born in Valdosta, Lowndes
County, Ga., July 27,
1941.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; dentist;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1995-2007 (10th District 1995-2003,
9th District 2003-07, 10th District 2007); died in office 2007.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Died, from lung
cancer and idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
13, 2007 (age 65 years, 201
days).
Interment at Westover
Memorial Park, Augusta, Ga.
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Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. (1907-1990) —
of Georgia.
Born in Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga., July 19,
1907.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1965-71.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Freemasons.
Died in 1990
(age about
82 years).
Interment at Oak
City Cemetery, Bainbridge, Ga.
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David Poythress (b. 1943) —
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., October
24, 1943.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1979-83; appointed 1979; Georgia
commissioner of labor; elected 1992, 1994; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1998, 2010.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Still living as of 2010.
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Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (1908-1961) —
also known as Prince H. Preston, Jr. —
of Statesboro, Bulloch
County, Ga.
Born in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., July 5,
1908.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Bulloch County, 1935-38;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1947-61; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Eagles;
American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Died in 1961
(age about
52 years).
Interment at Eastside
Cemetery, Statesboro, Ga.
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Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (1906-1994) —
also known as Robert L. F. Sikes —
of Crestview, Okaloosa
County, Fla.
Born in Isabella, Worth
County, Ga., June 3,
1906.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1937-40; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1941-44, 1945-79 (3rd District
1941-44, 1945-63, 1st District 1963-79); resigned 1944; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1956
(delegation chair).
Methodist.
Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American
Legion; National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Grotto;
Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Kiwanis;
Military
Order of the World Wars; Phi
Kappa Phi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Alpha
Zeta; Alpha
Gamma Rho; Elks.
Reprimanded
by the House of Representatives in 1976 over conflicts
of interest.
Died while suffering from Alzheimer's
disease, September
28, 1994 (age 88 years, 117
days).
Interment at Liveoak
Park Memorial Cemetery, Crestview, Fla.
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G. Bertram Smith (1892-1978) —
of Hammond, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Chandler Township, Huron
County, Mich., 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; worked in oil
refining; real estate
business; mayor
of Hammond, Ind., 1942-48.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Kiwanis.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 10,
1978 (age about 85
years).
Interment at Flora
Hill Memory Garden, Tucker, Ga.
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Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (1913-2003) —
also known as Robert G. Stephens, Jr. —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
14, 1913.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1951-53; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Clarke County, 1953-59; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1961-77.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Elks; Kiwanis;
Woodmen.
Died, in a hospital
at Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., February
20, 2003 (age 89 years, 190
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Herman Eugene Talmadge (1913-2002) —
also known as Herman E. Talmadge —
of Lovejoy, Clayton
County, Ga.
Born near McRae (now McRae-Helena), Telfair
County, Ga., August
9, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Governor of
Georgia, 1947, 1948-55; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1957-81; defeated, 1980; received one
electoral vote for Vice-President, 1956.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Farm
Bureau; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Hampton, Henry
County, Ga., March
21, 2002 (age 88 years, 224
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Henry County, Ga.
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William McDonald Wheeler (1915-1989) —
also known as W. M. Don Wheeler —
of Alma, Bacon
County, Ga.
Born in Alma, Bacon
County, Ga., July 11,
1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1947-55; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
Died May 4,
1989 (age 73 years, 297
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000) —
also known as Hosea Williams —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Attapulgus, Decatur
County, Ga., January
5, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; walked
with a cane due to wartime injury; ordained
minister; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1972; member of Georgia
state house of representatives 54th District, 1975-85; candidate
for mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1989.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Phi
Beta Sigma; Elks; Freemasons;
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion.
Civil rights leader; active in sit-ins
and protest
marches in Savannah and elsewhere; arrested
at least 135 times. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "field general"
in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the 1965
Selma-to-Montgomery march which helped galvanize support for Black
voting rights. In 1968, he was present at the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tenn., when King was assassinated. Convicted
in 1981 of leaving
the scene of an accident, and jailed
for six months.
Died, of cancer,
at Piedmont Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
16, 2000 (age 74 years, 316
days).
Entombed at Lincoln
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Bob Young (born c.1948) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born about 1948.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War; mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1999-; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Georgia, 2000,
2004;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia.
Episcopalian.
Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Vietnam
Veterans of America; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Still living as of 2004.
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