Saturday, November 11, 2017

Cunard Jackson Broome (1923-1999)

From the 1957-58 Georgia Official and Statistical Register.

    A newspaper publisher and one-term representative in the Georgia state assembly, Cunard Jackson "C.J." Broome hailed from Alma, Georgia, a city that also produced two other oddly named political figures featured here, Braswell Drue Deen Sr. and his son, Judge Braswell D. Deen Jr. A lifelong Georgia resident, "C.J." Broome was born in Jeffersonville, Georgia on December 5, 1923, being the son of Carl Jackson (a newspaper owner and former mayor of Nahunta, Georgia) and Exie Lurline (Cunard) Broome. A student in schools local to Brantley County, Georgia, Broome graduated from the local high school in 1940 and in 1949 received his BCS degree from the University of Georgia
  While still in his teens Broome followed in his father's stead and entered into newspaper publishing, joining the staff of the Alma Times. By 1942 he had succeeded to the post of editor and at age 21 was serving as that paper's publisher. Cunard Broome married in Coweta County Georgia in December 1947 to Myrtle Inez Tanner (1912-2004). The couple was wed for over five decades and their union would see the births of two children, Lynda Sue (born 1949) and Lou Jena (born 1951).
    A well-known civic leader in Alma, C.J. Broome was a prominent figure in a number of civic groups prior to his election to the state assembly, serving as director of the Alma Board of Trade and president of the Georgia Press Association. Broome also held the presidency of the Alma Lions Club, the presidency of the Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce's 8th district, and was a former director of the Housing Authority of the city of Alma. 
  Elected to the state assembly in November 1956, Cunard Broome succeeded Braswell Drue Deen Jr. as Bacon County's representative in the legislature. Shortly before the expiration of his term Broome entered the Democratic primary race for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, and in September 1958 placed third in a field of five candidates, garnering 49, 686 votes. Following his term, Broome retired from the newspaper business and operated the Great Earth Properties real estate agency, as well as serving as chairman of a "multi-county Transportation task force working to improve road rail and port infrastructure in southeast Georgia." 
   Cunard Jackson Broome died at age 76 on October 20, 1999. He was survived by his wife Myrtle, who, following her passing in 2004 was interred alongside him at the Oakland Cemetery in Waycross, Georgia.

3 comments:

  1. He as well as the maternal side of his family descend from the same cunard as the founder of cunard ocean liner ships. Nothing strange or comical there. The cunards originated in crefield, rhineland, Germany. This family sailed on the Concorde to Pennsylvania USA in 1683. They came in as converted mennonites under John pastoris who was representing William Penn. The ship carried 13 family's and some of their domestics. All but one family converted to Quakers and their church members were called friends. Tones kunders, the first cunard was a church and community leader. At his home the friends congregation wrote a letter to the government pleading for slave emancipation. This is historically documented as the first attempt in America to end slavery. Cunard is a name to ne proud of. Other names derived from the ancestral name of founders would be conrads, cunnard, kinnard, several others.




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  2. He as well as the maternal side of his family descend from the same cunard as the founder of cunard ocean liner ships. Nothing strange or comical there. The cunards originated in crefield, rhineland, Germany. This family sailed on the Concorde to Pennsylvania USA in 1683. They came in as converted mennonites under John pastoris who was representing William Penn. The ship carried 13 family's and some of their domestics. All but one family converted to Quakers and their church members were called friends. Tones kunders, the first cunard was a church and community leader. At his home the friends congregation wrote a letter to the government pleading for slave emancipation. This is historically documented as the first attempt in America to end slavery. Cunard is a name to ne proud of. Other names derived from the ancestral name of founders would be conrads, cunnard, kinnard, several others.




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