Sam Hobbs

Samuel Francis Hobbs ( born October 5, 1887 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, † May 31, 1952 ) was an American lawyer, judge and politician ( Democratic Party).

Career

Samuel Francis Hobbs attended public schools, the Callaway Preparatory School in Selma and Marion Military Institute in Marion. Then he attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Tennessee ) and graduated in 1908 at the Law Faculty of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He was admitted as a lawyer in the same year and then began to practice in Selma. Hobbs was appointed in 1921 judge of the fourth judicial district of Alabama. He was elected to the same office in 1923 and held it until his retirement in 1926. Afterwards he went back his activity after as a lawyer. He had in 1931 presided over the Muscle Shoals Commission and the Alabama 1933 National Recovery Administration Committee.

Hobbs was elected to the 74th U.S. Congress and reelected to the seven succeeding U.S. Congresses. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 3 January 1935 to 3 January 1951. During this time he was appointed the U.S. House of Representatives in 1936 to one of the conductors, which should lead the impeachment proceedings against Halsted L. Ritter, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Hobbs sought in 1950 to no longer re-election. After leaving office, he returned to Selma, where he began his work as a lawyer again.

Hobbs died there in 1952 and was buried in the Live Oak Cemetery.