{{Short description|American judge}} {{Use American English|date = October 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Carlton Mobley | image = Carlton Mobley 1932.jpg | caption = Mobley in 1932 | state = Georgia | district = 6th | term_start = March 2, 1932 | term_end = March 3, 1933 | office2 = Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court | term2 = 1972 – 1974 | office3 = Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court | term3 = 1954 – 1972 | preceded = Samuel Rutherford | succeeded = Carl Vinson | party = Democratic | birth_name = William Carlton Mobley | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|12|7}} | birth_place = Jones County, Georgia | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|10|14|1906|12|7}} | death_place = Atlanta, Georgia | resting_place = Forsyth, Georgia | alma_mater = Mercer University | allegiance = {{flagu|United States}} | branch = {{flag|United States Navy}} | rank = {{Dodseal|USNO4|25}} Lieutenant commander | battles = World War II | service_years = 1943 – 1946 }}
'''William Carlton Mobley''' (December 7, 1906 – October 14, 1981) was a jurist and politician from the American state of Georgia. He is one of the youngest people to ever be elected to the United States House of Representatives, having entered the house at the age of 25.
==Early years and education== Mobley was born near Hillsboro, Jones County, Georgia, and graduated from Mercer University with a law degree in 1928. While at Mercer, he was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity.<ref name="Congress1933">{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Official Congressional Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tat3T45rScsC&pg=PA18|year=1933|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=18}}</ref>
==Political service and law career== Mobley practiced law in Forsyth, Georgia before serving as secretary to Congressman Samuel Rutherford from 1929 to 1932. In 1932, Mobley was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives representing Georgia's 6th congressional district (Rutherford had died in office; Mobley was elected in a special election to replace him). Mobley did not seek reelection.<ref name="Congress1933" /> Subsequently, Mobley served in Georgia's Executive Department from 1934 to 1937, under Governor Eugene Talmadge;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85027046/1934-05-10/ed-1/seq-8/|title=Tom Lindeer to be succeeded by W. C. Mobley|publisher=The Butler Herald (Butler, Ga.)|date=May 10, 1934|accessdate=February 4, 2020}}</ref> as an Assistant Attorney General of Georgia from 1941 to 1943; as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946; and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1954 to 1974, including a term as chief justice from 1972 to 1974.<ref name="Court1982">{{cite book|author=Georgia. Supreme Court|title=Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia at the ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvVPAQAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=State Library|page=xxxi}}</ref>
==Later years== Following retirement from the Court, he resided in Atlanta, Georgia until his death on October 14, 1981. He is interred in Forsyth, Georgia.
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==External links== *{{Find a Grave|49770086}} *[https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/youngest-congressman-presents-credentials-to-speaker-garner-news-photo/540431236 Photo - Youngest Congressman presents credentials to Speaker Garner]
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