Nathan Philemon Bryan

US Senator. Born near Fort Mason, Florida, he graduated from Emory College Georgia, in 1893, from the law department of Washington and Lee University Virginia, in 1895, admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced to practice law in Jacksonville, Florida. He was chairman of the board of control of the Florida State institutions of higher education (1905-09). In 1911, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, serving until 1917. An unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination, he resumed the practice of law, was appointed judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals of the Florida Fifth Judicial Circuit in April 1920 and served until his death at age 65. His younger brother was Florida Senator William James Bryan.