Oral history interview with Charles Weltner, 1991 May 16
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Weltner, Charles Longstreet
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"Representative from Georgia; born in Atlanta, Fulton County Ga., December 17, 1927; attended the public schools of Fulton County, Ga.; graduated from Oglethorpe University at Atlanta, Ga., in 1948 and from Columbia University School of Law at New York City, in 1950; received M.A. from Columbia Theological Seminary, 1983, and LL.M., University of Virginia Law School, 1983; commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga., in 1950; served as a first lieutenant in the United States Army, 1955-1957; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; deputy chairman, Democratic National Committee, and director of young Americans division, 1967; resumed the practice of law; judge, Superior Court, Atlanta Judicial Circuit, 1976-1981; chairman, Judicial Council of Georgia, 1980-1981; justice, Supreme Court of Georgia, 1981-1992, chief justice from June 1992 until his death in Atlanta, Ga., on August 31, 1992; was a resident of Atlanta."--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.; Interviewed by Mel Steely on May 16, 1999 at Weltner's office.; The interview begins with a discussion on Weltner's childhood and education. Weltner refuses to discuss his religious beliefs, stating that he does not want to use them as an excuse or as protection from any of his poor decisions. He answers questions about his time in law school at Columbia and his knowledge that he would always be a lawyer and get involved in politics....
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Steely, MelUniversity of West Georgia. Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program
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- Allen, Ivan, 1877 1968
- Alumni And Alumnae
- Anti Communism Movements
- Assasination
- Atlanta Constitution
- Atley, C
- Attorneys General
- Banks And Banking
- Benus, Kenneth
- Black Power
- Blackburn, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Bentley), 1927
- Bond, Julian, 1940
- Bowers, Mike
- Boy Scouts Of America
- Boyd, Betty Cobb
- Brannon, Ed
- Busbee, George, 1927
- Callaway, Howard H. (Howard Hollis), 1927
- Capital Punishment
- Chicago Seven Trial, Chicago, Ill., 1969 1970
- Civil Rights
- Clint, Jack
- Cold War
- Columbia University. School Of Law
- Craig, Calvin Fred
- Crime
- Davis, James C. (James Curran), 1895
- De Kalb County (Ga.)
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Dirksen, Everett Mc Kinley
- Economic Conditions
- Elections
- Flynt, John James, 1914
- Forests And Forestry
- Fortson, Blanton
- Fowler, Wyche, 1940
- Fulton County (Ga.)
- Geer, Peter Zack
- Georgia
- Georgia. General Assembly
- Gingrich, Newt
- Government
- Gregory, Cleveland E., Jr
- History
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911 1978
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917 1963
- Ku Klux Klan (1915)
- Landrum, Philip M
- Legislators
- Lowe, Wyman
- Massell, Sam
- Murphy, Thomas Bailey, 1924 2007
- Newnan (Ga.)
- Oglethorpe University
- Patterson, Eugene C. (Eugene Corbett), 1923
- Political Campaigns
- Politics And Government
- Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908 1972
- Prevention
- Rivers, Eurith Dickinson, 1895 1967
- Rockdale County (Ga.)
- Sanders, Carl Edward, 1925
- Thompson, Fletcher, 1925
- United States
- United States. Army
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Congress
- University System Of Georgia. Board Of Regents
- Urban Renewal
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Violence
- Weltner, Charles Longstreet
- World War, 1914 1918
- Wsb (Radio Station : Atlanta, Ga.)