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CASTELLOW, Bryant Thomas, a Representative from Georgia; born on a farm near Georgetown, Quitman County,
Ga., July 29, 1876; attended the local school, high schools at Eufaula, Ala., and Coleman, Ga., and
Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; was graduated from the law department of the University of Georgia,
at Athens in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Fort Gaines, Ga., in
1898; superintendent of the public schools in Coleman, Ga., in 1897 and 1898; captain of Company
D, Fourth Infantry, Georgia State Troops, 1899-1902; solicitor of Clay County court in 1900 and
1901; judge of Clay County court 1901-1905; moved to Cuthbert, Randolph County, Ga., in 1906
and served as referee in bankruptcy for the western division of the northern district of Georgia
1906-1912; solicitor general of the Pataula judicial circuit from 1913 until his resignation in 1932,
having been nominated for Congress; elected on November 8, 1932, as a Democrat to the
Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles R. Crisp and on the
same day was elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congress and
served from November 8, 1932, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination in 1936;
retired from public life and the practice of law; died in Cuthbert, Ga., July 23, 1962; interment in
Rosedale Cemetery.
BibliographyCoode, Thomas H. Bryant Thomas Castellow of
Georgia. Georgia Advocate 8 (Fall 1971): 16-20.
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