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Pierce
County,
Georgia  Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails Biographies Brantley, William Gordon, lawyer,
legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1860, in Blackshear, Ga. He
was educated at Blackshear academy of Georgia; and studied for two
years at Georgetown University. He represented Pierce county in the
Georgia house of representatives in 1884-85; and represented the third
senatorial district in the Georgia state senate in 1886-87. He was
solicitor-general of Brunswick circuit in 1888-96. In 1897-1911 he was
a representative from Georgia to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth,
fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first
congresses as a democrat.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
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