serviceyears branch death_date allegiance term alt birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place profession battles term_start rank image name predecessor birth_place unit party office state district successor article_title
1915 ; 1918 & ndash ; 1916 ; 1917 & ndash south carolina national guard ; united states army 10 march 1953 usa united states of america january , 1933 january 11 , 1921 & ndash ; january 8 13 , 1925 , 1929 & ndash ; january 10 joseph r. bryson in 1939 18 january 1893 march 10 , 1953 greenville , south carolina furman university university of south carolina bethesda , maryland lawyer first world war january 3 , 1939 second lieutenant josephrbryson.jpg joseph raleigh bryson gabriel h. mahon , jr. . brevard , north carolina company a , first infantry ; medical reserve corps democratic party member member of the south carolina house of representatives from greenville of county the south carolina senate from greenville county south carolina 4th robert t. ashmore joseph r. bryson

joseph r. bryson

joseph raleigh bryson -lrb- january 18 , 1893 -- march 10 , 1953 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from south carolina .
born in brevard , north carolina , bryson moved , with his parents , to greenville , south carolina , in 1900 .
he attended the public schools .
he graduated from furman university , greenville , south carolina , in 1917 and from the law department of the university of south carolina at columbia in 1920 .
enlisted on september 28 , 1915 , as a private in company a , first infantry , south carolina national guard , and served until discharged on august 9 , 1916 .
reenlisted on august 3 , 1917 , in the medical reserve corps , being discharged as a second lieutenant of infantry on december 12 , 1918 .
he was admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in greenville , south carolina .
he served as member of the state house of representatives 1921-1924 .
he served in the state senate 1929-1932 .
bryson was elected as a democrat to the seventy-sixth and to the seven succeeding congresses , and served from january 3 , 1939 , until his death in the naval hospital at bethesda , maryland , march 10 , 1953 .
he was interred in woodlawn memorial park , greenville , south carolina .
