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Dougherty County Georgia
Biographies
Mann, James Tift, one of Georgia’s
promising young attorneys, is engaged in the practice of his profession
in his
native city of Albany,
Dougherty county, where he was born on March 24, 1880. He is a son of
W.D. and
Irene (Tift) Mann, the former a native of Virginia
and the latter of Albany.
The father is now engaged in the real estate business in Albany, and is
a prominent and honored
citizen of Dougherty county. The mother is a daughter of Col. Nelson
Tift, the
founder of Albany and for many years prominent
in Georgia
affairs. A sketch of his life appears elsewhere in this work. James T.
Mann was
a student for three years in the University of the South at Sewanee,
Tenn., and then entered the law department of
the University of Georgia,
in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900. He was
admitted to
the bar soon after leaving the university and has since been
established in the
practice of his profession in his native city, where he has won a high
standing
at the bar. He is a stanch supporter of the principles and policies of
the
Democratic party, in behalf of which he is an active and effective
worker. He
is at the present time a member of the Georgia house of
representatives,
for the term of 1905-6. In that body he occupies the important position
of
chairman of military affairs, and he rendered the people of his state a
signal
service as co-author and one of the champions of the bill abolishing
negro
militia. He also secured the passage of a bill appropriating $100,000
for the
state militia, in whose welfare he is much interested. In June, 1900,
he enlisted
as a private in Company E, Fourth infantry, Georgia state troops, and
in 1902
was promoted to the captaincy of his company. On Jan. 1, 1906, he was
made
lieutenant-colonel and judge advocate-general of the National Guard of
Georgia.
On the same date he was made city attorney of Albany. He is also a
member of the Albany board of police commissioners and treasurer of the
Albany chamber of
commerce. In a fraternal way he belongs to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
college
fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in
religious
belief is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church.
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)
(Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler & Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Kim Mohler)
