Background
Folger, John Hamlin was born on December 18, 1880 in Rockford, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Wilson and Ada Dillard (Robertson) Folger.
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Folger, John Hamlin was born on December 18, 1880 in Rockford, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Wilson and Ada Dillard (Robertson) Folger.
Born in Rockford, North Carolina, Folger attended public schools in Surry County. He graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina and studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Admitted to the bar in 1901, Folger opened a law practice in Dobson, North Carolina. He was elected mayor of the town of Mount Airy, North Carolina from 1908, serving until 1912. He was sent to the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1927 to 1928 and to the North Carolina State Senate from 1931 to 1932.
Active in the North Carolina Democratic Party, Folger was a delegate to state Democratic conventions between 1924 and 1940 and to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932 and 1944.
Alonzo Doctorate. Folger, John Folger was sent to Congress in a special election called to fill the vacancy. He was re-elected three more times, serving in the 77th, 78th, 79th, and 80th United States Congresses.
Folger did not stand for reelection in 1948 and returned to his law practice in Mount Airy, North Carolina, from which he retired in 1959. He died in Clemmons, North Carolina in 1963 and is buried in Mount Airy"s Oakdale Cemetery.
Member American, North Carolina, Surry Company bar associations. Mason (Shriner).
Married Maude Douglas, November 5, 1899. Children: Fred, Nell (Mistress Bailey Glenn), Henry, Frances.