Maston E. O'Neal Jr. explained

State:Georgia
District:2nd
Predecessor:J.L. Pilcher
Successor:Dawson Mathis
Birth Name:Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr.
Birth Date:19 July 1907
Birth Place:Bainbridge, Georgia
Death Place:Bainbridge, Georgia
Party:Democratic Party
Term Start:January 3, 1965
Term End:January 3, 1971
Alma Mater:Davidson College, Emory University

Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. (July 19, 1907  - January 9, 1990) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.

Biography

Born in Bainbridge, Georgia, O'Neal attended the public schools and Marion Military Institute. He graduated from Davidson College with a Bachelor's degree in 1927. Next he attended Lamar School of Law at Emory University; he served as the principal of Shellman High School from 1927 to 1928. He was admitted to practice law in the Albany circuit on January 16, 1930.

O'Neal was the solicitor general of the Albany Judicial Circuit from January 1, 1941, to May 1, 1964. (He was reelected five times to four-year terms without opposition, including one term in absentia while in naval service.) He served as lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve (Amphibs) in the Pacific Theater of World War II from 1944 to 1946. He was the first president of the Solicitors General Association of Georgia, and the former director of the National Association of County and Prosecuting Attorneys.

O'Neal was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth, Ninetieth, and Ninety-first Congresses (January 3, 1965  - January 3, 1971). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress.

He was a resident of Bainbridge until his death there in 1990.