biography
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| lived:
| (1880–1952)
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| biography:
| US representative, born in Mitchell Co, Georgia, USA. A circuit court judge and lawyer in SW Georgia, he went to congress (1925–52), became a member of the powerful Rules Committee and led the Southern Democrats opposed to the New Deal. When the Federal Communications Commission charged him with violating federal law in 1943, he demanded their links to Communism be investigated. Despite public outrage, he remained in Congress, successfully blocking progressive legislation. |
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