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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Iris F. Blitch |
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Homerville, Georgia , United States |
| Email | None |
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April 25, 1912
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| Died | August 19, 1993
(81 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | born in Toombs County, near Vidalia, Ga., April 25, 1912; attended the public schools of Vidalia, Douglas, Fitzgerald, and Homerville, Ga., and Hagerstown, Md.; student at the University of Georgia at Athens in 1929 and attended South Georgia College at Douglas in 1949; associated with husband in drug business, naval stores operations, and farming in Homerville, Ga.; elected to the State senate in 1946; elected to the State house of representatives in 1948 and defeated for reelection in 1950; again elected to the State senate in 1952 and served until December 31, 1954; Democratic national committeewoman for Georgia 1948-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; was a resident of St. Simons Island, Ga; moved in 1988 to San Diego, Calif., where she died on August 19, 1993; interment in Pinelawn Cemetery, Homerville, Ga.
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