A. Sidney Camp
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Albert Sidney Camp (July 26, 1892 – July 24, 1954) was an American
educator and lawyer
.
Biography
Camp was born in Moreland, Georgia. The Camp family was a colonial family with ancestors arriving in the American colonies during the 17th century. Albert Sidney Camp was named for a Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, under whom his great grandfather served during the American Civil War.
Albert Sidney Camp attended the
B.L.) degree in 1915 and was admitted to the GA state bar and became a practicing lawyer in Newnan, Georgia
.
From 1917 to 1919, Mr. Camp served in
Eighty-second Division. After the war, Albert Camp attended the University of Edinburgh
.
Mr. Camp served in the
Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on July 24, 1954.[1]
Camp was a close friend of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and is credited with introducing Roosevelt to the mineral springs at Warm Springs, Georgia. Mr. Camp is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery
in Newnan.
See also
- List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99)
References
- ^ A. Sidney Camp Rep. in Congress Dies in Washington; Butler Herald; Butler, Georgia; Page 1; July 29, 1954
- United States Congress. "A. Sidney Camp (id: C000070)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2009-02-28
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