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Albert Sidney Camp (July 26, 1892 – July 24, 1954) was an Americanpolitician,educator andlawyer.

Camp was born inMoreland,Georgia. The Camp family was a colonial family with ancestors arriving in theAmerican colonies during the 17th century. Albert Sidney Camp was named for aConfederate General,Albert Sidney Johnston, under whom his great grandfather served during theAmerican Civil War.

Albert Sidney Camp attended theUniversity of GeorgiaSchool of Law inAthens where he was a member of thePhi Kappa Literary Society. He graduated with aBachelor of Laws (B.L.) degree in 1915 and was admitted to the GA state bar and became a practicing lawyer inNewnan, Georgia.

From 1917 to 1919, Mr. Camp served inWorld War I as a member of the Headquarters Detachment of theEighty-second Division. After the war, Albert Camp attended theUniversity of Edinburgh.

Mr. Camp served in theGeorgia House of Representatives from 1923 through 1928 and later as an assistantUnited States attorney for Georgia's northern district from 1934 through 1939. Camp was elected to fill the seat of the deceasedEmmett M. Owen in theU.S. House of Representatives and served in that position from 1939 until his death from a liver ailment at theBethesda Naval Hospital inBethesda, Maryland on July 24, 1954.^[1]

Camp was a close friend of PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt, and is credited with introducing Roosevelt to themineral springs atWarm Springs,Georgia. Mr. Camp is buried inOak Hill Cemetery in Newnan.

• List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1950–1999)

• United States Congress."A. Sidney Camp (id: C000070)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2009-02-28

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