Albert Sidney Camp

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Albert Sidney Camp (July 26, 1892 - July 24, 1954) was an American politician, educator and lawyer.

Camp was born in Moreland, Georgia. The Camp family was a colonial family with ancestors arriving in the American colonies during the seventeenth century. Albert Sidney Camp was named for a Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, under whom his great grandfather served during the American Civil War. The family name continues to this day with Camp's great grandson, Albert Sidney Camp IV of Chicago.

After graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (B.L.) degree in 1915, he was admitted to the GA state bar and became a practicing lawyer in Newnan, Georgia.

From 1917 to 1919, Mr. Camp served in World War I as a member of the Headquarters Detachment of the Eighty-second Division. After the war, Albert Camp attended the University of Edinburgh.

Mr. Camp served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1923 through 1928 and later as an assistant United States attorney for Georgia's northern district from 1934 through 1939. Camp was elected to fill the seat of the deceased Emmett M. Owen in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in that position from 1939 until his death in 1954 in Bethesda, Maryland. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a close friend of Congressman Camp, who is credited with introducing President Roosevelt to the recuprative waters at Warm Springs, GA. Mr. Camp is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Newnan.

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• This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Preceded by: Emmett M. Owen

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 4th congressional district August 1, 1939 - July 24, 1954

Succeeded by: John J. Flynt, Jr.