James W. Overstreet

James Whetstone Overstreet ( born August 28, 1866 Sylvania, Screven County, Georgia, † December 4, 1938 ) was an American politician. Between 1906 and 1907, and again from 1917 to 1923, he represented the state of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Overstreet was born on a farm near Sylvania. He attended the public schools of his home, including the Sylvania High School. Then he studied until 1888 at Mercer University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1892 admitted to the bar he began in Sylvania to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the years 1898 and 1899 Overstreet sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Georgia. From 1905 to 1906 he was a board member of his party. Between 1902 and 1906 he served as a municipal judge in Sylvania. After the death of longtime deputies Rufus E. Lester, he was at the due election for the first seat of Georgia as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on October 3, 1906 at its new mandate. Until March 3, 1907, he finished the opened term in Congress. Then the chosen at the regular elections of 1906 Charles Gordon Edwards, his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the following years James Overstreet again worked as a lawyer in Sylvania. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, was nominated at the Woodrow Wilson as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was re-elected in the first district of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he broke on March 4, 1917 Charles Edwards off again. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1923 three full parliamentary terms in Congress until March 3. In this time of the First World War fell. At that time the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. It was about the prohibition of alcohol trade and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

For the elections of 1922 James Overstreet has not been nominated by his party for another term in Congress. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Politically, he is no more have appeared. James Overstreet died in December 1938 in Sylvania and was also buried there. He was (1879-1958) married Dicie Nunally, the couple had a son.