James M. Dykes | |
Birth Date: | 4 May 1916 |
Birth Place: | Bleckley County, Georgia, U.S. |
Death Date: | December 1966 (aged 50) |
Death Place: | Cochran, Georgia, U.S. |
Office1: | Member of the Georgia House of Representatives |
Term Start1: | 1945 |
Term End1: | 1947 |
Office2: | Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 14th district |
Term Start2: | 1949 |
Term End2: | 1950 |
Term Start3: | 1955 |
Term End3: | 1956 |
Term Start4: | 1961 |
Term End4: | 1962 |
Preceded4: | Robert L. Slade Jr. |
Succeeded4: | Jimmy Carter |
Party: | Democratic |
Spouse: | Katherine Crooms[1] |
James M. Dykes (May 4, 1916 – December 1966) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives. He also served as a member for the 14th district of the Georgia State Senate.
Dykes was born in Bleckley County, Georgia. He attended Cochran High School and Honolulu Business School.[2]
Dykes served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1945 to 1947. He then served three separate terms in the Georgia State Senate, representing the 14th district.
In December 1966, Dykes was found dead in a restroom at his office in Cochran, Georgia with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.[3] [4]