Background
Lankford was born in the Camp Creek Community of Clinch County, Georgia in 1874 and graduated from the Jasper Normal Institute in Jasper, Florida in 1897, the Georgia Normal College and Business Institute in Abbeville, Georgia, in 1900.
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Lankford was born in the Camp Creek Community of Clinch County, Georgia in 1874 and graduated from the Jasper Normal Institute in Jasper, Florida in 1897, the Georgia Normal College and Business Institute in Abbeville, Georgia, in 1900.
Public Schools, Clinch Company, Georgia. Georgia. Normal College, and Business. Institute., Abbeville, Georgia., 1899.
University of Georgia., Bachelor of Laws, 1901.
After moving to Douglas, Georgia in 1901, Lankford began the practice of law in that city. He remained on that board until 1918. On January 1, 1908, Lankford became a judge of the city court.
He resigned that post on May 1, 1916, to run an unsuccessful campaign that year for the United States House of Representatives.
Lankford ran again for the 66th United States Congress in 1918 and was elected as a Democrat to represent Georgia"s 11th congressional district. Following his congressional service, Lankford returned to practicing law.
He worked in the General Accounting Office in Washington, District of Columbia from January 1935 through October 1942. On December 10, 1964, he died in Twin Lakes, Georgia and was buried in Douglas Cemetery in the city of Douglas.
In 1906, he was elected as Mayor of Douglas and became a member of the city Board of Education the following year.
Spouse Mattie Lott, 1906, three ch.