* Charles Longstreet Weltner; Jurist, Civil Rights Advocate

Charles Longstreet Weltner, 64, the only Deep South congressman to vote for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 1966, he gave up his seat in Congress after two terms rather than sign a Democratic Party loyalty oath that would have required him to support segregationist Lester Maddox in that year’s gubernatorial campaign. Weltner took part in lawsuits that in 1962 overturned a Georgia primary system that diminished blacks’ voting power. He led a 1964-65 House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. He won the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award in 1991. Weltner joined Georgia’s Supreme Court in 1982 and became chief justice in June. He was a Superior Court judge from 1976 to 1981. In Atlanta on Monday of cancer.