Carlton Harry Colwell, a Northeast Georgia businessman and longtime Georgia legislator, died Monday following an extended illness.
Colwell was 95.
Colwell, a Blairsville native, owned and operated Caldwell Construction Company for 71 years. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1964 and served on a number of committees, including the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Colwell served in the State House for three decades.
A funeral service for Colwell has been scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 at 5 p.m. at the Union County Fine Arts Center.
Colwell was part of an oral history of Georgia politics developed in 2009 through the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia, and he reflected on his three decades representing the mountain counties of Northeast Georgia in the State House.
Details on Colwell's funeral service are available here.
