district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name alma_mater
11th 10th roy a. taylor jim broyhill 20 march 1989 gastonia , north carolina york county , south carolina democratic party january 3 , 1963 january 3 , 1969 woodrow w. jones charles r. jonas 14 may 1915 january 3 , 1957 january 3 , 1963 basil lee whitener
 north carolina north carolina basil lee whitener rutherford school college university of south carolina duke university law
basil lee whitener

basil lee whitener -lrb- may 14 , 1915 -- march 20 , 1989 -rrb- was a democratic u.s. representative from north carolina between 1957 and 1968 .
whitener was born in york county , south carolina on may 14 , 1915 , and was educated in the public schools of gaston county , north carolina .
he graduated from lowell high school in 1931 and from rutherford college in 1933 , attending the university of south carolina from 1933 to 1935 and graduating from duke university law school in 1937 .
he was admitted to the north carolina bar in 1937 and commenced practice of law in gastonia , north carolina .
in 1941 whitener was elected to the north carolina house of representatives and was renominated in 1943 but resigned to enter the united states navy .
he served as a gunnery officer until november 1945 , leaving with a rank of lieutenant .
whitener was appointed solicitor , fourteenth solicitorial district , in january 1946 and elected in november 1946 , reelected in 1950 and 1954 , and served until december 31 , 1956 .
in 1948 , he was a delegate to the democratic national convention .
whitener was elected as a democrat to the eighty-fifth and to the five succeeding congresses -lrb- january 3 , 1957 -- january 3 , 1969 -rrb- ; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968 to the ninety-first congress and an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1970 to the ninety-second congress .
he resumed the practice of law .
whitener was a resident of gastonia , north carolina until his death there on march 20 , 1989 .
