Braswell Drue Deen was a U.S. Representative

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 from Georgia

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Born on a farm near Baxley, Georgia

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, Deen attended public and high schools and South Georgia College

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, McRae, Georgia

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 (now in Douglas, Georgia

Douglas, Georgia

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Deen was elected county school superintendent, Appling County, Georgia

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, November 1916-August 1918. He was graduated from Emory University

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, Atlanta, Georgia

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, in 1922. He served as superintendent of schools at Tennille, Georgia

Tennille, Georgia

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 from 1922 to 1924. He served as president of South Georgia Junior College, McRae, Georgia from 1924 to 1927. He engaged in farming and real estate development

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 in 1927 and 1928. He was editor and proprietor of the Alma (Georgia) Times. He also engaged in banking.

Deen was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-third

73rd United States Congress

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, Seventy-fourth

74th United States Congress

-House:Also 2 Delegates, 3 Resident Commissioners-Senate:*President of the Senate: John N. Garner *President pro tempore: Key Pittman -Majority leadership:*Majority leader: Joseph T. Robinson...

, and Seventy-fifth

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 Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress

76th United States Congress

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. After serving in Congress, he worked as an insurance broker

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 and cattle

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 farmer. He resided in Alma, Georgia

Alma, Georgia

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, until his death there on November 28, 1981. He was interred at Rose Hill Cemetery

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 in Macon, Georgia

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Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

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