TARVER, Malcolm Connor

TARVER, Malcolm Connor
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
About this object
1885–1960

Biography

TARVER, Malcolm Connor, a Representative from Georgia; born in Rural Vale, Whitfield County, Ga., September 25, 1885; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Dalton, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives 1909-1912; served in the State senate in 1913 and 1914; judge of the superior courts, Cherokee Circuit, Ga., 1917-1927; elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1927-January 3, 1947); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed the practice of law; died in Dalton, Ga., March 5, 1960; interment in West Hill Cemetery.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

University of Georgia
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Athens, GA
Papers: 1944, 1 box. The collection consists of twenty pieces of Malcolm Tarver's correspondence from 1944, at which time he served as a Democrat representing Georgia's Seventh District in the United States Congress. A finding aid is available in the library and online: http://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/search.

Georgia Department of Archives and History

Atlanta, GA
Papers: In File II Names. File is primarily incoming correspondence to the Governor of Georgia. Finding aid in repository.

Library of Congress
Manuscript Division

Washington, DC
Papers: In the Margaret Sanger Papers, ca. 1900-1966, 106 linear feet. Correspondents include Malcolm C. Tarver.

Stanford University
Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, CA
Papers: In the Edward Eyre Hunt Papers, 1902-1953, 104 boxes. Correspondents include Malcolm C. Tarver.

University of Texas, Austin
The Center for American History

Austin, TX
Papers: In the Sam Rayburn Papers, 1831-2007, approximately 119 feet. Persons represented include Malcolm Tarver.
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