# Braswell Deen

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For his son, also a politician, see [Braswell Deen Jr.](/source/Braswell_Deen_Jr.).

**Braswell Drue Deen** (June 28, 1893 – November 28, 1981) was a [U.S. Representative](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)).

## Life

Born on a farm near [Baxley, Georgia](/source/Baxley,_Georgia), Deen attended public and high schools and [South Georgia College](/source/South_Georgia_College_(Methodist)), [McRae, Georgia](/source/McRae,_Georgia).

Deen was elected county [school superintendent](/source/School_superintendent), [Appling County, Georgia](/source/Appling_County,_Georgia), November 1916-August 1918. He was graduated from [Emory University](/source/Emory_University), [Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Atlanta,_Georgia), in 1922. He served as superintendent of schools at [Tennille, Georgia](/source/Tennille,_Georgia) from 1922 to 1924. He served as president of South Georgia Junior College, McRae, Georgia from 1924 to 1927. He engaged in [farming](/source/Farming) and [real estate development](/source/Real_estate_development) 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](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) to the [Seventy-third](/source/73rd_United_States_Congress), [Seventy-fourth](/source/74th_United_States_Congress), and [Seventy-fifth](/source/75th_United_States_Congress) Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the [Seventy-sixth Congress](/source/76th_United_States_Congress). After serving in Congress, he worked as an [insurance broker](/source/Insurance_broker) and [cattle](/source/Cattle) farmer. He resided in [Alma, Georgia](/source/Alma,_Georgia), until his death there on November 28, 1981. He was interred at Rose Hill Cemetery in [Alma, Georgia](/source/Alma,_Georgia).

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