A. Sidney Camp

Albert Sidney Camp attended the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.

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 World War I as a member of the Headquarters Detachment of the Eighty-second Division.

Camp was elected to fill the seat of the deceased Emmett M. Owen in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in that position from 1939 until his death from a liver ailment at 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.